[Bug]: NewsRequest classs param:symbols designed to take List[str] for symbols but can only take a single symbol as str

[neili02]

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Current Behavior

Error when using NewsRequest with multiple symbols.

from alpaca.data.historical.news import NewsClient
from alpaca.data.requests import NewsRequest

NewsClient().getnews(request_params=NewsRequest(symbols=['AAPL','GOOGL'])

results in error.

Expected Behavior

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SDK Version I encountered this issue in

alpaca-py v0.31.0

Steps To Reproduce

ValidationError: 1 validation error for NewsRequest
symbols
  Input should be a valid string [type=string_type, input_value=['AAPL', 'GOOGL'], input_type=list]
    For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.6/v/string_type

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[hiohiohio]

https://github.com/hiohiohio/alpaca-py/blob/791ce40d01914ad967ae14a2f11d66449af119d4/alpaca/data/requests.py#L389

symbols (Optional[str]): The comma-separated list of symbols to query news for.

@neili02 the parameter currently does not support list. Please convert to comma separated str.

NewsClient().getnews(request_params=NewsRequest(symbols=",".join(['AAPL','GOOGL']))

[neili02]

Okay, thanks.