How do you implement a read resource function in an MCP client?

To enable resource access in your MCP client, you implement a read resource function. You will need a couple of imports: the standard library JSON module for parsing structured data, and the AnyUrl type from Pydantic for representing the resource URI. The core function makes a request to the MCP server through the session and processes the response based on its MIME type. The function takes a URI as an argument, awaits the session's read resource method, looks at the result, and returns the parsed contents to your application code. With that one method, the rest of your app can fetch any resource the server exposes.