📄 ai-sdk/docs/reference/stream-helpers/streaming-text-response

It is a utility class that simplifies the process of returning a ReadableStream of text in HTTP responses. It is a lightweight wrapper around the native Response class, automatically setting the status code to 200 and the Content-Type header to 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'.

Import

import { StreamingTextResponse } from "ai"

API Signature

Parameters

stream:

ReadableStream

The stream of content which represents the HTTP response.

init?:

ResponseInit

It can be used to customize the properties of the HTTP response. It is an object that corresponds to the ResponseInit object used in the Response constructor.

ResponseInit

status?:

number

The status code for the response. StreamingTextResponse will overwrite this value with 200.

statusText?:

string

The status message associated with the status code.

headers?:

HeadersInit

Any headers you want to add to your response. StreamingTextResponse will add 'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' to these headers.

data?:

StreamData

StreamData object that you are using to generate additional data for the response.

Returns

An instance of Response with the provided ReadableStream as the body, the status set to 200, and the Content-Type header set to 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'. Additional headers and properties can be added using the init parameter

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