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# adapted from
# https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/websockets/#await-for-messages-and-send-messages
import os
from fastapi import FastAPI, WebSocket
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse
app = FastAPI()
CONNECT_SERVER = os.getenv("CONNECT_SERVER")
CONNECT_CONTENT_GUID = os.getenv("CONNECT_CONTENT_GUID")
html = f"""
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Chat</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>WebSocket Chat</h1>
<form action="" onsubmit="sendMessage(event)">
<input type="text" id="messageText" autocomplete="off"/>
<button>Send</button>
</form>
<ul id='messages'>
</ul>
<script>
var ws = new WebSocket("{CONNECT_SERVER}content/{CONNECT_CONTENT_GUID}/ws");
ws.onmessage = function(event) {{
var messages = document.getElementById('messages')
var message = document.createElement('li')
var content = document.createTextNode(event.data)
message.appendChild(content)
messages.appendChild(message)
}};
function sendMessage(event) {{
var input = document.getElementById("messageText")
ws.send(input.value)
input.value = ''
event.preventDefault()
}}
</script>
</body>
</html>
"""
@app.get("/")
async def get():
return HTMLResponse(html)
@app.websocket("/ws")
async def websocket_endpoint(websocket: WebSocket):
await websocket.accept()
while True:
data = await websocket.receive_text()
await websocket.send_text(f"Message text was: {data}")
FastAPI
websockets
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