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Docker for Serverless Applications

You're reading from   Docker for Serverless Applications Containerize and orchestrate functions using OpenFaas, OpenWhisk, and Fn

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835268
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chanwit Kaewkasi Chanwit Kaewkasi
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Preface 1. Serverless and Docker 2. Docker and Swarm Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. Serverless Frameworks 4. OpenFaaS on Docker 5. The Fn Project 6. OpenWhisk on Docker 7. Operating FaaS Clusters 8. Putting Them All Together 9. The Future of Serverless 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Preparing a WebHook in Fn


The Fn Project works best with functions written in Java. When calling a function, the framework would be able to automatically transform the body of the request as a parameter of the entrypoint method. In the following example, the JSON from the request will be converted into a string for the handleRequest method, the entrypoint method of this Fn function:

public Object handleRequest(String body) {
    if (body == null || body.isEmpty()) {
        body = "{}";
    }
     Input input;
    try {
        val mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        input = mapper.readValue(body, Input.class);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        return new Error(e.getMessage());
    }
     if (input == null) {
        return new Error(body);
     }
     /* process the rest of business logic */
}

Here's the list of data transfer object (DTO) classes to properly encode and decode Parse's WebHook messages inside an Fn function. With help from Project Lombok and Jackson, we can dramatically...

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