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WebSocket

interface WebSocket
extends EventTarget
allow-net

Provides the API for creating and managing a WebSocket connection to a server, as well as for sending and receiving data on the connection.

If you are looking to create a WebSocket server, please take a look at Deno.upgradeWebSocket().

Properties Jump to heading

Returns a string that indicates how binary data from the WebSocket object is exposed to scripts:

Can be set, to change how binary data is returned. The default is "blob".

Returns the number of bytes of application data (UTF-8 text and binary data) that have been queued using send() but not yet been transmitted to the network.

If the WebSocket connection is closed, this attribute's value will only increase with each call to the send() method. (The number does not reset to zero once the connection closes.)

Returns the extensions selected by the server, if any.

Jump to headingonclose: (() => any) | null
Jump to headingonerror: (() => any) | null
Jump to headingonmessage: (() => any) | null
Jump to headingonopen: ((
this: WebSocket,
ev: Event,
) => any) | null
readonly
Jump to headingprotocol: string

Returns the subprotocol selected by the server, if any. It can be used in conjunction with the array form of the constructor's second argument to perform subprotocol negotiation.

Returns the state of the WebSocket object's connection. It can have the values described below.

readonly
Jump to headingurl: string

Returns the URL that was used to establish the WebSocket connection.

readonly
Jump to headingCLOSED: number
readonly
Jump to headingCLOSING: number
readonly
Jump to headingOPEN: number
Jump to headingclose(
code?: number,
reason?: string,
): void

Closes the WebSocket connection, optionally using code as the WebSocket connection close code and reason as the WebSocket connection close reason.

Jump to headingsend(data:
string
| ArrayBufferLike
| Blob
| ArrayBufferView
): void

Transmits data using the WebSocket connection. data can be a string, a Blob, an ArrayBuffer, or an ArrayBufferView.

Jump to headingaddEventListener<K extends keyof WebSocketEventMap>(
type: K,
listener: () => any,
options?: boolean | AddEventListenerOptions,
): void
Jump to headingremoveEventListener<K extends keyof WebSocketEventMap>(
type: K,
listener: () => any,
options?: boolean | EventListenerOptions,
): void
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