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Resolves SDK-2752. Supersedes SDK-585 and SDK-2172, and the closed #1325.

Summary

The realtime client spoke the Phoenix 1.0.0 protocol, with every frame a JSON object. It now connects with vsn=2.0.0, like the Flutter and Swift v3 clients, and the 1.0.0 encoding is gone.

Changes

• New private realtime._serializer with encode() and decode(), following the Flutter serializer:
  • Text frames are the JSON array [join_ref, ref, topic, event, payload] in both directions, serialized with pydantic as before, so non-finite floats still become null and text stays UTF-8.
  • A broadcast whose payload is bytes is sent as a binary user broadcast push frame (kind 3). Its fields are measured in UTF-8 bytes, and one over 255 bytes raises ValueError. JSON broadcasts stay text frames.
  • Binary user broadcast frames from the server (kind 4) are decoded with a JSON or a binary payload and the optional metadata into meta, the same shape as a JSON broadcast.
  • Unknown kinds, unknown payload encodings and truncated frames raise ValueError.
• RealtimeClient.listen() reads text frames as str and binary frames as bytes, and logs and skips any frame it cannot decode instead of only pydantic validation errors.
• PROTOCOL_VERSION is "2.0.0".
• RealtimeChannel.send_broadcast() takes JSON | Buffer, and sends any bytes-like object (bytes, bytearray, memoryview) as binary. With ack=True, a binary broadcast waits for the reply like a JSON one.
• BroadcastPayload.payload is dict[str, Any] | Annotated[bytes, Strict()], so a string payload is still rejected instead of being read as bytes. Message.payload is Mapping[str, JSON | bytes], since the JSON type made pydantic decode bytes into str or reject them.
• realtime.configuration.binary_protocol is marked implemented in sdk-compliance.yaml, and the README documents binary payloads.

Breaking changes

• The client requires a Realtime server that supports protocol 2.0.0.
• BroadcastPayload.payload can be bytes, so code that indexes it needs to narrow it to dict first.

Tests

• tests/test_serializer.py covers the frame layouts, multi-byte UTF-8 fields, the 255 byte limit, malformed frames, non-finite floats, and a binary broadcast round trip of bytes, bytearray and memoryview, with and without ack, against a local WebSocket server, which also sends a frame of an unknown kind that the client has to skip.
• test_binary_broadcast_events sends a binary broadcast to the local Supabase Realtime server and receives it back with listen_self=True.
• The local test servers in the other tests now speak the 2.0.0 array format.

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• src/realtime/src/realtime/_serializer.py
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Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Realtime broadcasts now support bytes payloads, sent and received as binary WebSocket frames.
  • Updated Realtime protocol support to version 2.0.0.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on sending and receiving binary broadcast payloads.

The Realtime client now uses protocol version 2.0.0 and shared serialization functions for outgoing and incoming frames. Broadcast payload types accept bytes, which are sent and received in binary frames. Tests and documentation cover the serializer, binary broadcasts, and updated WebSocket message handling.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RealtimeChannel
  participant RealtimeClient
  participant encode
  participant WebSocket
  participant decode
  RealtimeChannel->>RealtimeClient: send broadcast message
  RealtimeClient->>encode: encode(message)
  encode-->>RealtimeClient: binary frame for bytes payload
  RealtimeClient->>WebSocket: send frame
  WebSocket-->>RealtimeClient: receive frame
  RealtimeClient->>decode: decode(frame)
  decode-->>RealtimeClient: Message with bytes payload

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Assessment against linked issues

Objective	Addressed	Explanation
Implement Realtime 2.0 serialization and binary broadcast payloads [#1325]	✅
Add optional metadata support and filtering by allowed_metadata_keys [#1325]	❓	Metadata is represented in binary-frame decoding and covered by serializer tests. The supplied change summaries do not establish allowed_metadata_keys filtering.
Keep protocol 1.0.0 as the default and enable 2.0.0 through a vsn parameter [#1325]	❌	The protocol version changes to 2.0.0; the summaries do not describe a vsn parameter or a retained 1.0.0 default.

Possibly related PRs

• supabase/supabase-py#2007: Changes the connection-failure behavior of the _send and _send_no_wait methods used by the updated binary broadcast send path.
• supabase/supabase-py#1950: Makes the internal transport methods used by this protocol implementation private.

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Low · previous review af0fb

Binary broadcast payloads, which can contain user data, are written to debug and error logs. This is limited to payloads callers choose to send as bytes. Consider logging only frame metadata for binary frames before merge, but it is not a broad blocker.

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- Line 192: Stop logging raw frame contents in the malformed-message error path
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• src/realtime/src/realtime/channel.py
• src/realtime/src/realtime/client.py
• src/realtime/src/realtime/message.py
• src/realtime/src/realtime/types.py
• src/realtime/tests/test_connection.py
• src/realtime/tests/test_heartbeat.py
• src/realtime/tests/test_join_ref.py
• src/realtime/tests/test_log_redaction.py
• src/realtime/tests/test_reconnection.py
• src/realtime/tests/test_send_failures.py
• src/realtime/tests/test_serializer.py
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