spawnFunction - doesn't accept static method

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. dart:isolate doc says:
   "The topLevelFunction argument must be a static top-level function or a static method that takes no arguments."
2. Run
   import "dart:isolate";

class Actor {
   static _spawn() => new Actor().act();
   static spawn() => spawnFunction(_spawn());
   act() {
      port.receive((message, replyTo){/* do something */});
   }
}

main() {
  var actor = Actor.spawn();
}

1. Dart throws exception
   Unhandled exception:
   Illegal argument(s): spawnFunction expects to be passed a closure to a top-level static function

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

• spawnFunction() should accept static methods too.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

• Linux karl-VirtualBox 3.2.0-35-generic-pae #­55-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 18:04:39 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
• Dart VM version: 0.2.9.9_r16323_karl (Sun Dec 30 13:38:16 2012)

Please provide any additional information below.

[dgrove]

Set owner to @justinfagnani.
Added Area-Library, Library-Isolates, Triaged labels.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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Actually, the sample code should be:

import "dart:isolate";

class Actor {
   static _spawn() => new Actor().act();
   static spawn() => spawnFunction(_spawn);
   act() {
      port.receive((message, replyTo){/* do something */});
   }
}

main() {
  var actor = Actor.spawn();
}

[dgrove]

Added Library-Isolate label.

[dgrove]

Removed Library-Isolates label.

[lrhn]

Added Duplicate label.
Marked as being merged into #3011.