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[hmajid2301]

Hi,

Within VSCode I'm getting some type errors:

Cannot access member "sio" for type "FastAPI"
  Member "sio" is unknown

Which makes sense because as far as VSCode knows FastAPI doesn't have an attribute sio. Is there a way this can be fixed ? For example adding custom stub types ?

Thanks

[dimaqq]

That's going to be kinda hard when SocketManager magically creates a .sio on the app that's passed as an argument.

One option would be to start with app = cast(FastAPIWithSocketIO, FastAPI()) or equivalent.

The downside of that approach is only one enrichment can be used at a time -- what happens the user wants to use another fastapi-foobario library that behaves this way?

Ideally I'd be able to declare app extensions like so: app.sio: SIO|None = None, but alas, "Type cannot be declared in assignment to non-self attribute", see e.g. https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/2388

So... today, IMHO, the only solution is not to keep the sio object on the app. After all, I think global app singleton access is a bit of an anti-pattern (consider a larger app with many routers).

So, I would propose to have a separate sio global instead of app.sio

app = FastAPI()
SockerManager(app)
sio = cast(socketio.asyncio_server.AsyncServer, app.sio)

Ultimately, while socket_manager and app.sio are different objects, the documentation claims that they can be used [mostly] interchangeably to e.g. .emit(...) messages: https://github.com/pyropy/fastapi-socketio/blob/3dd1f3d6f63d5a0e506cbe873b3a64a68592175a/README.md?plain=1#L40-L50