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Add a bytes type to UDL #1541

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heinrich5991 opened this issue May 15, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #1543
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Add a bytes type to UDL #1541

heinrich5991 opened this issue May 15, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #1543
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heinrich5991 commented May 15, 2023 •
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Some languages, such as e.g. Python, distinguish between arrays of 8-bit integers (List[int] in Python) and byte buffers (bytes in Python).

This would IMO neatly solve #1299.

Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-byte-array/
Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes

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Hi @heinrich5991, this is a nice suggestion!

A dedicated bytes type would also make working with byte arrays a little more ergonomic in Kotlin (in a component I was writing recently, I had to opt-in to kotlin.ExperimentalUnsignedTypes, then use the toByteArray conversion you linked to turn the List<UByte> into a ByteArray) and Swift (where we could represent them as Data instead of [UInt8]).

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badboy commented May 16, 2023

Over in Glean we also use sequence<u8> in at least one place and having that be bytes would be nice.

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heinrich5991 added a commit to heinrich5991/uniffi-rs that referenced this issue May 19, 2023
@heinrich5991
Introduce bytes type
1aee74b 
This type is mapped to the native bytestring type in the various
languages, i.e.

- Kotlin: `UByteArray`
- Python: `bytes`
- Ruby: `String` with `Encoding::BINARY`
- Swift: `Data`

Also add tests exercising this new type.

Fixes mozilla#1299.
Fixes mozilla#1541.
heinrich5991 added a commit to heinrich5991/uniffi-rs that referenced this issue May 22, 2023
@heinrich5991
Introduce bytes type
85c71af 
This type is mapped to the native bytestring type in the various
languages, i.e.

- Kotlin: `UByteArray`
- Python: `bytes`
- Ruby: `String` with `Encoding::BINARY`
- Swift: `Data`

Also add tests exercising this new type.

Fixes mozilla#1299.
Fixes mozilla#1541.
heinrich5991 added a commit to heinrich5991/uniffi-rs that referenced this issue May 22, 2023
@heinrich5991
Introduce bytes type
2f5cbd2 
This type is mapped to the native bytestring type in the various
languages, i.e.

- Kotlin: `UByteArray`
- Python: `bytes`
- Ruby: `String` with `Encoding::BINARY`
- Swift: `Data`

Also add tests exercising this new type.

Fixes mozilla#1299.
Fixes mozilla#1541.
heinrich5991 added a commit to heinrich5991/uniffi-rs that referenced this issue May 23, 2023
@heinrich5991
Introduce bytes type
e5c8f75 
This type is mapped to the native bytestring type in the various
languages, i.e.

- Kotlin: `UByteArray`
- Python: `bytes`
- Ruby: `String` with `Encoding::BINARY`
- Swift: `Data`

Also add tests exercising this new type.

Fixes mozilla#1299.
Fixes mozilla#1541.
mhammond pushed a commit that referenced this issue May 23, 2023
@heinrich5991
Introduce bytes type (#1543)
f243005 
This type is mapped to the native bytestring type in the various
languages, i.e.

- Kotlin: `ByteArray`
- Python: `bytes`
- Ruby: `String` with `Encoding::BINARY`
- Swift: `Data`

Also add tests exercising this new type.

Fixes #1299.
Fixes #1541.
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