{"json_modified": "2016-07-12T10:31:45.316101", "uuid": "2242cef7-e9ee-489c-9db7-3d795551b6a7", "title": "RTCDataChannel.binaryType", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCDataChannel/binaryType", "tags": ["Property", "RTCDataChannel", "WebRTC", "Reference", "binaryType", "Experimental"], "translations": [], "modified": "2016-07-12T10:31:45", "label": "RTCDataChannel.binaryType", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 124809, "last_edit": "2016-07-12T10:31:38", "summary": "The property <code><strong>binaryType</strong></code> on the <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCDataChannel\" title=\"The RTCDataChannel interface represents a network channel which can be used for bidirectional peer-to-peer transfers of arbitrary data. Every data channel is associated with an RTCPeerConnection, and each peer connection can have up to a theoretical maximum of 65,534 data channels (the actual limit may vary from browser to browser).\"><code>RTCDataChannel</code></a> interface is a <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMString\" title=\"DOMString is a UTF-16 String. As JavaScript already uses such strings, DOMString is mapped directly to a String.\"><code>DOMString</code></a> which specifies the type of JavaScript object which should be used to represent binary data received on the <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCDataChannel\" title=\"The RTCDataChannel interface represents a network channel which can be used for bidirectional peer-to-peer transfers of arbitrary data. Every data channel is associated with an RTCPeerConnection, and each peer connection can have up to a theoretical maximum of 65,534 data channels (the actual limit may vary from browser to browser).\"><code>RTCDataChannel</code></a>. Values allowed by the <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSocket/binaryType\" title=\"The documentation about this has not yet been written; please consider contributing!\"><code>WebSocket.binaryType</code></a> property are also permitted here: <code>\"blob\"</code>\u00a0if <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob\" title=\"A Blob object represents a file-like object of immutable, raw data. Blobs represent data that isn't necessarily in a JavaScript-native format. The File interface is based on Blob, inheriting blob functionality and expanding it to support files on the user's system.\"><code>Blob</code></a> objects are being used or <code>\"arraybuffer\"</code> if <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/ArrayBuffer\" title=\"The documentation about this has not yet been written; please consider contributing!\"><code>ArrayBuffer</code></a> objects are being used. The default is <code>\"blob\"</code>.", "sections": [{"id": "Quick_Links", "title": null}, {"id": "Syntax", "title": "Syntax"}, {"id": "Value", "title": "Value"}, {"id": "Example", "title": "Example"}, {"id": "Specifications", "title": "Specifications"}, {"id": "Browser_compatibility", "title": "Browser compatibility"}, {"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Web/API/RTCDataChannel/binaryType", "review_tags": []}