dart:html.Location duplicates dart:uri.Uri

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by @seaneagan

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The dart:html Location interface duplicates the members of dart:Uri uri. It would be better to kill Location, and have something like:

interface Window {
  //...
  String get location();
  void set location(String location);
  void replaceLocation(String location);
  List<String> get ancestorOrigins();
  void reload();
}

Then to access a Location-like object just do:

final uri = new Uri.fromString(window.location);
print("path: ${uri.path}");
// etc.

Note: see also issue #2711

[dgrove]

Set owner to @vsmenon.
Added Area-DOM, Triaged labels.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by @seaneagan

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see also issue #2711

[peter-ahe-google]

Issue #3200 has been merged into this issue.

[vsmenon]

Revisit this after: https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=3836

Need to make sure cross-frame security checks are in place.

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Added this to the Later milestone.
Marked this as being blocked by #3836.

[iposva-google]

Removed Area-DOM label.
Added Area-HTML label.

[vsmenon]

Removed the owner.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by @seaneagan

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AreaElement, AnchorElement, and WorkerLocation also duplicate Uri properties.

Probably AreaElement, AnchorElement, and Window could have a "uri" property which returns a custom implementation of Uri which in dart2js forwards to the corresponding JavaScript properties (e.g. hostname, port, etc.). WorkerLocation could surely go away.

[blois]

I think I'd prefer that Location implements Uri rather than replacing it, I'm a bit wary of merging the rest of Location APIs into Window.

[justinfagnani]

Marked this as blocking #6679.

[efortuna]

Added html-api label.

[blois]

Removed this from the Later milestone.
Added this to the M8 milestone.
Removed html-api label.

[blois]

Need to come up with a plan first, but might be possible (might not as well!)

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Added Community-StarterBug label.

[blois]

Moving to later as I think it will take some manipulation to get these two to work together properly.

Seems like a uri property might work best.

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Removed this from the M8 milestone.
Added this to the Later milestone.

[kevmoo]

Removed Area-HTML label.
Added Area-Library, Library-Html labels.

[kasperl]

Removed this from the Later milestone.
Added Oldschool-Milestone-Later label.

[kasperl]

Removed Oldschool-Milestone-Later label.

[alan-knight]

Removed Type-Defect label.
Added Type-Enhancement label.

[kevmoo]

By design. The Location class has methods like reload and replace that don't align with the shared Uri class in dart:core