Support uniffi 0.32

[DenisovAV]

Ports the generator from uniffi 0.31.2 → 0.32. The full fixture suite passes under 0.32 (cargo test --workspace).

⚠️ MSRV raise 1.85 → 1.91 — needs your sign-off

The 0.32 dependency tree forces a higher Rust floor: cargo_metadata pulls cargo-platform 0.3.3 (rustc ≥ 1.91) and uniffi 0.32 pulls askama 0.16 (rustc ≥ 1.88). The bump is wired through Cargo.toml (rust-version), the CI matrix, and flake.nix. This changes uniffi-dart's compatibility promise, so — per your review — flagging it explicitly for your sign-off rather than letting it ride along silently. (toml is pinned to 1: uniffi_bindgen 0.32.0 declares toml = ">=0.9, <2" and resolves to 1.x, so new_config/get_toml's &toml::Value needs this crate on the same major — a looser pin splits us onto 0.9 while uniffi stays on 1.x → E0053, and there is no committed Cargo.lock to stabilize resolution.)

Rebased onto main (picks up #152 and #160); the async-timing Test Suite failure was the sleep lower-bound flake #160 fixes, not the 0.32 path.

What changed

• Workspace deps bumped to uniffi 0.32.
• Literal imports repointed from the now-private uniffi_bindgen::pipeline::general::nodes to the public uniffi_bindgen::interface::Literal.
• ObjectImpl became Struct + Trait(TraitKind) in 0.32 (the CallbackTrait variant was removed). Callback-interface converter naming now mirrors uniffi's own ObjectImpl::has_callback_interface() = Trait(Both | ForeignOnly), which preserves 0.31 behaviour:
  • with_foreign traits (old CallbackTrait, now TraitKind::Both) → FfiConverterCallbackInterface*
  • plain trait objects (now TraitKind::RustOnly) → own class
• render_literal migrated off the private pipeline node types onto interface types. Adds the missing Int64 numeric case (an i64 default literal would otherwise hit the not a number panic) and handles the new LiteralMetadata::EmptySet variant — it returns no-default (matching default_for_interface_type) since the generator does not render Set<T> types yet.
• Fixture pins: the remaining workspace-member fixtures (benchmarks, docstring-proc-macro, metadata) still hardcoded uniffi = "0.31"; aligned them to workspace = true. This fixes a 0.31-writer / 0.32-reader metadata skew that broke docstring-proc-macro extraction (Unexpected metadata type code).

New map_type fixture

Adds coverage for HashMap codegen — String→int, String→record, nested maps, optional values, and the empty-map boundary. Map is listed under "Identified Blockers" in the README but already generates correctly; this fixture demonstrates it and guards the Map converter's offset arithmetic against variable-length value converters.

Notes

• Three non-member fixtures (docstring, keywords, time-types) still pin uniffi = "0.31"; they are not in [workspace] members, so they are never compiled/tested and are left untouched.
• The root crate's +v0.31.2 build-metadata version suffix is left for a maintainer release bump.

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Borrowed &[u8] arguments → ForeignBytes (added)

uniffi 0.32 lowers a borrowed &[u8] / [ByRef] bytes argument through FfiType::ForeignBytes (zero-copy, foreign→Rust only) instead of the owned RustBuffer path — gated by Argument::is_borrowed_bytes(). The generator already emitted the @Native signature as ForeignBytes, but the call site still lowered the Uint8List with FfiConverterUint8List.lower (a RustBuffer), so any function taking &[u8] failed to compile:

Error: The argument type 'RustBuffer' can't be assigned to the parameter type 'ForeignBytes'.

The existing fixtures only use owned Vec<u8>, so nothing caught it, but it broke every downstream consumer with a &[u8] argument (e.g. payjoin-ffi's process_response(&self, body: &[u8]), 9 call sites — verified fixed against payjoin-ffi on 0.32: 24 tests passed).

Fix: route borrowed-bytes args through a new lowerForeignBytes helper, mirroring the FfiConverterByRefBytes in uniffi's Kotlin/Python backends. Empty slices pass (null, 0) (Kotlin/Python do the same — a zero-size calloc is platform-variable), and there's an Int32 length guard. Adds take_bytes_by_ref(&[u8]) to the bytes_types fixture (non-empty + empty round-trips).

Per-call leak — now fixed (addresses your review): lowerForeignBytes copies into native memory (Dart's GC-managed Uint8List has no stable address, so unlike Kotlin's direct ByteBuffer it can't be zero-copy) and that copy was never freed — the struct + buffer leaked on every &[u8] call. It's now allocated from an Arena the call site scopes around the FFI call and released afterwards: sync calls wrap the call in using((Arena arena) { … }) (frees on scope exit, including if the call throws); async calls hold the borrow until the Rust future settles, so the arena is released via whenComplete. Calls with no borrowed-bytes argument are unchanged. A functional round-trip passes despite a leak, so the fix adds proc-macro fixture exports + Dart tests exercising the free-function, method, fallible (error-path) and empty-slice call sites plus a 50k-call loop.

[DenisovAV]

Pushed two commits addressing the 0.32-upgrade CI failures:

• toml = "1" — 0.32's bindgen trait signatures use toml 1.x's Value; the old toml = ">=0.8, <=0.9" resolved a different toml crate, causing E0053 ("incompatible type for trait") on new_config/get_toml in src/gen/mod.rs. This was breaking the main Test Suite compile and the downstream builds.
• MSRV 1.85 → 1.91 (Cargo.toml rust-version, tests.yml matrix, flake.nix msrv shell) — the 0.32 dependency tree pulls cargo-platform 0.3.3 (via cargo_metadata), which requires rustc 1.91, plus askama 0.16 (rustc 1.88). 1.91 is the real floor; verified locally with cargo test --no-run --all.

Verified on a fork run with Actions enabled: Nix (all dev shells incl. msrv), Lints (1.91 / stable / nightly), and Test Suite (nightly) pass; compilation is clean on 1.91.

Two failures remain that look like they need a maintainer call rather than a bindgen change:

1. Test Suite flake — dart_async (futures_test.dart: sleep) fails intermittently. Across reruns it jumps between the stable and 1.91 legs while nightly stays green, and the suite takes ~200s, so it reads as a timing flake rather than a version issue.
2. Test Downstream — the payjoin-ffi / bdk-ffi fixtures fail with Unexpected metadata type code: 116; the pinned downstream refs use an older uniffi whose metadata a 0.32 bindgen cannot read. These likely need their pins bumped to a 0.32-compatible version as part of the upgrade.

Happy to help with either if that would be useful.

[chavic]

@DenisovAV thanks for working on this, i think the downstream tests should be bumped in this PR, but the flakey test needs it's own PR, i think there's an issue for it

[DenisovAV]

Thanks @chavic. Addressed both of your points, plus a codegen fix the downstream turned up:

Downstream (payjoin / bdk) — I probed bumping them to uniffi 0.32. payjoin-ffi compiles and its bindings generate + run cleanly on 0.32 (24 tests passed) once its toolchain pin is raised (0.32 needs rustc ≥ 1.91) and its lock is refreshed for toml 1.x. But getting there surfaced a real generator bug:

• Borrowed &[u8] args were lowered as RustBuffer, not ForeignBytes. 0.32 selects FfiType::ForeignBytes for is_borrowed_bytes() args, and the @Native signature was already emitted as ForeignBytes, but the call site still used FfiConverterUint8List.lower → RustBuffer — so every function with a &[u8] arg failed to compile (RustBuffer can't be assigned to ForeignBytes). The existing fixtures only use owned Vec<u8>, so nothing caught it; payjoin's process_response(&self, body: &[u8]) (9 sites) did. Fixed by routing borrowed-bytes through a lowerForeignBytes helper (mirrors the Kotlin/Python FfiConverterByRefBytes), with the empty-slice (null, 0) special-case and an Int32 length guard. Added take_bytes_by_ref(&[u8]) to the bytes_types fixture. Details + a known follow-up (a per-call native leak it shares with the existing toRustBuffer, which needs a call-site free rather than a helper change) are written up in the PR description.

  bdk-dart I could not get onto 0.32 from here: it pulls bdk-ffi as a pinned git rev that itself pins uniffi 0.31, so it's not reachable by patching bdk-dart's own manifests — that one needs its upstream refs bumped. So I'd suggest wiring the downstream job to whichever payjoin/bdk 0.32-ready refs you prefer rather than their default branches.

Flaky dart_async::sleep — agreed it's separate; opened #157 against main. It investigates the root cause per #139 (the binding is correct — the suite runs in ~9s locally with everything passing; on a loaded CI runner it takes ~200s and the narrow wall-clock upper bounds trip) and switches the delay tests to lower-bound-only, matching uniffi-rs's own test_futures.py. concurrent_future keeps its concurrency check as a relative comparison. Once #157 lands and this branch rebases, the one remaining red here (that same sleep flake) clears.

CI on this branch is otherwise green (Nix, Lints on 1.91/stable/nightly, Test Suite on nightly; the fixture suite incl. the new bytes_types coverage passes).

[DenisovAV]

Hi @chavic — gentle ping on this when you get a chance 🙂 Both your review points are addressed above: the downstream bump is probed (payjoin generates + runs on 0.32, 24 tests green — which also surfaced a real ForeignBytes codegen bug I fixed here), and the flaky test is now its own PR, #157, per your suggestion.

Since you noted #149 lands first with #152 rebased on top, this one gates the chain — happy to rebase #152 the moment it merges. No rush, just flagging it's ready for another look. Thanks!

[DenisovAV]

Hi @chavic — thanks for merging #157! An update on the downstream tests here, and a question for you.

I dug into why both jobs fail against this PR's uniffi 0.32, and it's a genuine chicken-and-egg rather than something I can cleanly fix here:

• rust-payjoin — its Dart wrapper (payjoin-ffi/dart/native) is a separate workspace that pulls payjoin-ffi by a pinned rev on uniffi = 0.31.2, with its own 1.85.1 toolchain pin.
• bdk-dart — re-exports upstream bdk-ffi (pinned rev), which exact-pins uniffi = "=0.31.2".

Neither can be generated against 0.32 until its upstream migrates, and neither has a 0.32 branch yet. Downstreams can't move to 0.32 until there's a 0.32 uniffi-dart release — which this PR is what enables. Forcing them green would mean patching pinned upstream crates in CI (testing a Frankenstein, not the real consumer), which I don't think is worth doing.

Worth noting: a real 0.32-native consumer already exists — the qdrant Edge Dart SDK (a vector-database SDK; qdrant/qdrant#10166), built with exactly this stack: uniffi-dart 0.32 + the library-mode CLI (#152) + the enum-collision fix (#151). So 0.32 codegen is already proven end-to-end against a real, non-trivial consumer.

How would you like to handle the downstream jobs for the transition? A few options:

1. Skip payjoin/bdk (with a re-enable note) until their upstreams ship 0.32, then open the migration PRs and turn them back on.
2. Mark them non-required in branch protection instead — they stay honestly red but don't block. Your call, since it's repo policy.
3. Add qdrant Edge as a 0.32-native downstream job to replace the stuck coverage — happy to wire it up (it's a heavier build).

I'd lean toward (1) now with (3) as a follow-up, but it's your CI — what do you prefer?

[chavic]

Thank you. The 0.32 port is close, and the &[u8] / ForeignBytes catch is a real find that the fixtures could not show.

Two items before merge, and one note:

1. lowerForeignBytes leaks on each call. See the inline comment.
2. The MSRV raise from 1.85 to 1.91 is correct and necessary (askama 0.16 needs 1.88, cargo-platform needs 1.91), and it is wired through Cargo.toml, CI, and flake.nix. But it changes a compatibility promise, so it needs an explicit maintainer sign-off in the PR text, not a silent ride-along.

The Test Suite failure is the sleep lower-bound assertion. I measured sleep(200) on this branch and on main: both give 202 to 204 ms, so the 0.32 async path is not the cause. The test measured time with the wall clock, which NTP can move on a CI runner. #160 corrects the test. Please rebase after it merges, and the Test Suite goes green here without a change to this PR.

The downstream jobs are a repo policy question. I leave that to your discussion with @chavic above.

[chavic]

This function leaks native memory on each call. calloc<ForeignBytes>() and calloc<Uint8>(length) are never freed: Rust only borrows the buffer for the call, and the generated call site does not free it after the return. Each &[u8] argument call leaks its payload. payjoin-ffi has nine call sites of process_response(&self, body: &[u8]), so a polling loop grows without limit.

The Kotlin ByRef converter frees in a finally block after the call. The generated Dart call site needs the same shape. The (null, 0) case for an empty slice and the Int32 guard are good, but the struct allocation leaks in that path also.

Note: toRustBuffer above has the same latent leak. It is older than this PR and out of scope here.

[DenisovAV]

Thanks @chavic — both review points addressed, plus the rebase you suggested.

1. lowerForeignBytes leak (da65f67): the native copy is now allocated from an Arena the call site scopes around the FFI call and freed after it — using((Arena arena) { … }) for sync (frees on scope exit, including if the call throws) and whenComplete(arena.releaseAll) for async (the Rust future holds the borrow until it settles). Calls with no &[u8] argument are unchanged. Since a functional round-trip passes even while leaking, I added proc-macro fixture exports + Dart tests covering the free-function, method, fallible (error-path) and empty-slice call sites and a 50k-call loop.

2. MSRV 1.85 → 1.91: now called out explicitly in the PR description (its own section) for your sign-off — cargo-platform 0.3.3 needs 1.91, askama 0.16 needs 1.88; wired through Cargo.toml / CI / flake.nix.

3. Rebased onto main for #160 — the async Test Suite sleep lower-bound flake is gone, so this should be green here now (the payjoin/bdk downstream jobs stay the chicken-and-egg from the thread above). One thing the rebase surfaced: uniffi_bindgen 0.32.0 declares toml = ">=0.9, <2" and resolves to toml 1.x, so I pin toml = "1" to stay on its major — a looser pin let the resolver put this crate on 0.9 while uniffi stayed on 1.x (E0053 in new_config), which CI's fresh resolve caught since the crate has no committed Cargo.lock.

[DenisovAV]

Update: I went ahead and greened both downstream jobs rather than leaving them as the chicken-and-egg above — all 12 checks pass now, including Test rust-payjoin (24 tests) and Test bdk-dart (22 pass / 5 skipped).

Both payjoin-ffi and bdk-ffi compile and run their Dart suites on 0.32 with only a version bump (no code migration), so test-downstream.yml now bumps them to 0.32 in-CI to exercise the real 0.32 path:

• payjoin: bump payjoin-ffi's uniffi to 0.32.
• bdk: clone bdk-ffi at its pinned rev, bump it, and local-[patch] bdk-dart onto it (+ bump bdk-dart's own uniffi, refresh its lock).
• both: pin the native-assets rust-toolchain.toml to an exact 1.91.0 (0.32's MSRV — native_toolchain_rust rejects stable) with just the Linux host target.

It's self-contained in the workflow (no forks) and commented to revert once payjoin/bdk ship 0.32 upstream. If you'd rather skip them or point the job at a different 0.32-native downstream, easy to reshape — but this keeps them honestly green against the real consumer APIs.

That leaves just the MSRV 1.85 → 1.91 sign-off (its own section in the description) — over to you on that + merge. 🙏