ByteStream should work with bytes (Uint8List), not List<int>

[mnordine]

I was surprised when streaming in a response, the chunks were List<int>, not Uint8List

var bytes = 0;
await for (final chunk in response.stream) {
  bytes += chunk.lengthInBytes; // nope, it's a List<int>
}

[jamesderlin]

Is this still a problem? I find it hard to believe that it is. If so, can anyone provide minimal, complete code that can reproduce the problem? A runtime error doesn't make sense since the above code would fail static checks (List<int> does not have a lengthInBytes member.)

Anyway, I tried doing:

import 'dart:typed_data';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

void main() async {
  var client = http.Client();
  var request = http.Request('GET', Uri.parse('https://www.google.com/'));
  var response = await client.send(request);
  await for (var chunk in response.stream) {
    if (chunk is Uint8List) {
      print('chunk is Uint8List'); // This gets printed.
    }
  }
  client.close();
}

and although the static type of chunk is a List<int>, its actual runtime type is a Uint8List.

(I tried with Dart 2.16.1 stable on linux_x64.)