google cloud pubsub node.js client not compatible with google cloud functions

Question

Architecture:

We have an architecture using 2 pubsub topic/subscription pairs:

• Topic T1 is triggered by a cronjob periodically (every 5

Answer 1

A developer from the node.js pubsub client confirmed that using the client to pull messages from a Cloud Function is not a supported use case.

The alternative is to use the service APIs. However, the REST APIs have their own caveats when attempting to pull all messages from a subscription.