Calling a Cloud Function from another Cloud Function

Question

I am using a Cloud Function to call another Cloud Function on the free spark tier.

Is there a special way to call another Cloud Function? Or do you just use a standa

Answer 1

It's possible to invoke another Google Cloud Function over HTTP by including an authorization token. It requires a primary HTTP request to calculate the token, which you then use when you call the actual Google Cloud Function that you want to run.

https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/securing/authenticating#function-to-function

const {get} = require('axios');

// TODO(developer): set these values
const REGION = 'us-central1';
const PROJECT_ID = 'my-project-id';
const RECEIVING_FUNCTION = 'myFunction';

// Constants for setting up metadata server request
// See https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/verifying-instance-identity#request_signature
const functionURL = `https://${REGION}-${PROJECT_ID}.cloudfunctions.net/${RECEIVING_FUNCTION}`;
const metadataServerURL =
  'http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/identity?audience=';
const tokenUrl = metadataServerURL + functionURL;

exports.callingFunction = async (req, res) => {
  // Fetch the token
  const tokenResponse = await get(tokenUrl, {
    headers: {
      'Metadata-Flavor': 'Google',
    },
  });
  const token = tokenResponse.data;

  // Provide the token in the request to the receiving function
  try {
    const functionResponse = await get(functionURL, {
      headers: {Authorization: `bearer ${token}`},
    });
    res.status(200).send(functionResponse.data);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err);
    res.status(500).send('An error occurred! See logs for more details.');
  }
};