Request for binary data via plugin API

[sethladd]

We believe we need some sort of binary data transport for the plugin API, in order to support plugins such as the camera.

[sethladd]

cc @FaisalAbid

[eseidelGoogle]

I believe @abarth added such when re-writing the HostMessages system to remove mojo.

[sethladd]

Update: we're building a first cut of a camera plugin that simply writes the image to the file system. We don't need a binary transport right now. But if it was there, that would be great, too. Here's the work-in-progress plugin: https://github.com/FaisalAbid/flutter-camera-plugin

[sethladd]

We technically don't need this for the camera plugin anymore. Feel free to close until we have another use case. (seems like we'll want this eventually, but we're not blocked on this)

[deftdawg]

The use case I would want to apply this to is a barcode reader. Don't think the Android-only camera plug-in mentioned really provides that...

[FaisalAbid]

Even with a third party library for barcode, you would grab the image, save it in Java and then send the file path over. No need for binary plugin for that

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[sethladd]

I'm going to close this because we don't have a specific use case for this. I'm guessing we'll probably do this at some point. So I'd like to reopen with a concrete use case when ready.

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