External types

Note: The facility described in this document is not yet available for all foreign language bindings.

UniFFI supports referring to types defined outside of the UDL file. These types must be either:

1. A locally defined type which wraps a UniFFI primitive type.
2. A "UniFFI compatible" type in another crate.

Specifically, "UniFFI compatible" means either a type defined in udl in an external crate, or a type defined in another crate that satisfies (1).

These types are all declared using a typedef, with attributes specifying how the type is handled. See the links for details.