Websocket send JSON encoded bytes

[kontsaki]

Hello,
I think I'm misunderstanding how to send the bytes returned by orjson.dumps, without decoding back to utf8, over websockets.
Both websocket.send_bytes and websocket.send_text have the same behavior.
What it the correct way to achieve this?

[Kludex]

You can use the following send_json function:

from typing import Any

import orjson

from starlette.websockets import WebSocket


async def send_json(websocket: WebSocket, data: dict[str, Any]):
    text = orjson.dumps(data)
    await websocket.send({"type": "websocket.send", "text": text})