How can I “sleep” a Dart program

Question

I like to simulate an asynchronous web service call in my Dart application for testing. To simulate the randomness of these mock calls responding (possibly out of order) I\

Answer 1

I also needed to wait for a service to complete during a unit test. I implemented this way:

void main()
{
    test('Send packages using isolate', () async {
        await SendingService().execute();
    });
    // Loop to the amount of time the service will take to complete
    for( int seconds = 0; seconds < 10; seconds++ ) {
        test('Waiting 1 second...', () {
            sleep(const Duration(seconds:1));
        } );
    }
}
...
class SendingService {
    Isolate _isolate;
    Future execute() async {
        ...
        final MyMessage msg = new MyMessage(...);
        ...
        Isolate.spawn(_send, msg)
            .then((Isolate isolate) => _isolate = isolate);
    }
    static void _send(MyMessage msg) {
        final IMyApi api = new IMyApi();
        api.send(msg.data)
            .then((ignored) {
                ...
            })
            .catchError((e) {
                ...
            } );
    }
}