# WebSockets

When defining WebSockets, you normally declare a parameter of type `WebSocket` and with it you can read data from the client and send data to it.

It is provided directly by Starlette, but you can import it from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import WebSocket
```

/// tip

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        }
                    },
                    "summary": "Read Current User",
                    "operationId": "read_current_user_users_me_get",
                    "security": [{"APIKeyQuery": []}],
                }
            }
        },
        "components": {

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        }
                    },
                    "summary": "Read Current User",
                    "operationId": "read_current_user_users_me_get",
                    "security": [{"HTTPBase": []}],
                }
            }
        },
        "components": {

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        }
                    },
                    "summary": "Read Current User",
                    "operationId": "read_current_user_users_me_get",
                    "security": [{"HTTPDigest": []}],
                }
            }
        },
        "components": {

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        }
                    },
                    "summary": "Read Items",
                    "operationId": "read_items_items__get",
                    "security": [{"OAuth2AuthorizationCodeBearer": []}],
                }
            }
        },
        "components": {

# limitations under the License.
# ==============================================================================

name: cffconvert

on:
  push:
    paths:
      - CITATION.cff

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  validate:
    if: github.repository == 'tensorflow/tensorflow' # Don't do this in forks
    name: "validate"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Check out a copy of the repository

                                    }
                                }
                            },
                        },
                    },
                    "summary": "Read Items",
                    "operationId": "read_items_items__get",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "required": False,
                            "schema": IsDict(

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        }
                    },
                    "summary": "Read Current User",
                    "operationId": "read_current_user_users_me_get",
                    "security": [{"HTTPBasic": []}],
                }
            }
        },
        "components": {

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Armon Dadgar

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Cenk Altı

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of