WebTransportSendStream: getWriter() method

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The getWriter() method of the WebTransportSendStream interface returns a new WebTransportWriter object and locks the stream to that instance. While the stream is locked, no other writer can be acquired until this one is released.

WebTransportWriter is a subclass of WritableStreamDefaultWriter that additionally provides the atomicWrite() and commit() methods.

Syntax

js
getWriter()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A WebTransportWriter object instance.

Exceptions

TypeError

The stream is already locked to another writer.

Examples

The following example shows how to open a unidirectional stream over a WebTransport connection and use getWriter() to write chunks of data to it.

js
const transport = new WebTransport("https://example.com/webtransport");
await transport.ready;

const stream = await transport.createUnidirectionalStream();
const writer = stream.getWriter();

const encoder = new TextEncoder();
await writer.write(encoder.encode("Hello"));
await writer.write(encoder.encode(", world!"));
await writer.close();

Specifications

Specification
WebTransport
# dom-webtransportsendstream-getwriter

Browser compatibility

See also