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Readme code does not reflect how methods should actually be used #30

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Feature or enhancement

Make the README.md examples consistent with how the library actually works.

Issue

One of the examples of how to receive data in the README.md is as follows:

@app.websocket('/ws/{conn_id}')
async def websocket_endpoint(
    ws: WebSocket,
    conn_id: str,
    *,
    topic: Optional[Any] = None,
) -> None:
    connection: Connection = await manager.new_connection(ws, conn_id)
    try:
        while True:
            msg = await connection.receive_json()
            await manager.broadcast(msg)
    except WebSocketDisconnect:
        await manager.remove_connection(connection)

However, remove_connection() is not async so should not be awaited. Furthermore, the type of msg in the example is a dict and since the broadcast() method only accepts the Message type, this can't actually be used. The topic param isn't being passed to new_connection() either.

Similar story to the example after:

@app.websocket('/ws/{conn_id}')
async def websocket_endpoint(
    ws: WebSocket,
    conn_id: str,
    *,
    topic: Optional[Any] = None,
) -> None:
    connection: Connection = await manager.new_connection(ws, conn_id)
    # This is the preferred way of handling WebSocketDisconnect
    async for msg in connection.iter_json():
        await manager.receive(connection, msg)
    await manager.remove_connection(connection)

remove_connection() is not async.
iter_json() is also returning dicts which don't fit with the receive() method.
topic param is unused.

Pitch

The first example could become something like this:

@app.websocket('/ws/{conn_id}')
async def websocket_endpoint(
    ws: WebSocket,
    conn_id: str,
    *,
    topic: Optional[Any] = None,
) -> None:
    connection: Connection = await manager.new_connection(ws, conn_id, topic)
    try:
        while True:
            data = await connection.receive_json()
            msg = Message.from_client_message(data=data)
            manager.broadcast(msg)
    except WebSocketDisconnect:
        manager.remove_connection(connection)

There's a lot of potential solutions though. You could

  • Add a receive_message() method to abstract the conversion to Message object
  • Change broadcast() to detect the type of the message arg
  • Add a broadcast_json() method instead

For the second example, it could be something like this:

@app.websocket('/ws/{conn_id}')
async def websocket_endpoint(
    ws: WebSocket,
    conn_id: str,
    *,
    topic: Optional[Any] = None,
) -> None:
    connection: Connection = await manager.new_connection(ws, conn_id, topic)
    # This is the preferred way of handling WebSocketDisconnect
    async for msg in connection:
        await manager.receive(connection, msg)
    manager.remove_connection(connection)

Just a side-note but it could be cool to see some sort of context manager or putting into an iter so that it removes the connection on WebSocketDisconnect automatically.

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