Pigeon: List is not supported in method arguments

[matejdro]

Steps to Reproduce

Run flutter pub run pigeon on top of the following snippet:

@HostApi()
abstract class TestApi {
  void provideList(List list);
}

Expected results:

Pigeon with List should get generated

Actual results:

Generation will error out with Error: pigeons/pigeons.dart: Unsupported argument type: "List" in API: "TestApi" method: "provideList

@gaaclarke

[pedromassangocode]

Hi @matejdro
Can you please provide the pigeon version you are using and for what language are you trying to convert?
Thank you

[gaaclarke]

You can't use datatypes directly, you have to make a class like so:

class Foo {
  List list;
}

@HostApi()
abstract class TestApi {
  void provideList(Foo foo);
}

There is an outstanding feature request to support builtin datatypes directly.

[matejdro]

Can you link to the feature request, please? I could not find it.

[pedromassangocode]

Closing as invalid issue.

[gaaclarke]

@matejdro I couldn't find it either. It's something we've discussed, maybe there isn't a feature request for it. I made one: #66467

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