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Documentation Grafana k6 JavaScript API k6/experimental websockets WebSocket WebSocket.onmessage

WebSocket.onmessage

A handler for a WebSocket connection message event. For multiple, simultaneous event handlers, use WebSocket.addEventListener().

Example

A k6 script that initiates a WebSocket connection and sets up a handler for the message event.

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import { WebSocket } from 'k6/experimental/websockets';

export default function () {
  const ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:10000');

  ws.onmessage = (data) => {
    console.log('a message received');
    console.log(data);
    ws.close();
  };
}

The preceding example uses a WebSocket echo server, which you can run with the following command:

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$ docker run --detach --rm --name ws-echo-server -p 10000:8080 jmalloc/echo-server