Functions Framework for Go An open source FaaS (Function as a Service) framework for writing portable Go functions, brought to you by the Google Cloud Functions team. The Functions Framework lets you write lightweight functions that run in many different environments, including: Google Cloud Functions Your local development machine Knative-based environments Google App Engine Google Cloud Run The framework allows you to go from: func HelloWorld(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { fmt.Fprint(w, “Hello, World!”) } To: curl http://my-url Output: Hello, World! All without needing to worry about writing an HTTP server or request handling logic. Features Build your Function in the same container environment used by Cloud Functions using buildpacks. Invoke a function in response to a request Automatically unmarshal events conforming to the CloudEvents spec Portable between serverless platforms Quickstart: Hello, World on your local machine Install Go 1.11+. Create a Go module: go mod init example.com/hello Note: You can use a different module name rather than example.com/hello. Create a `function.go` file with the following contents: package function import ( “fmt” “net/http” "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-go/functions" ) func init() { functions.HTTP(“HelloWorld”, helloWorld) } // helloWorld writes “Hello, World!” to the HTTP response. func helloWorld(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { fmt.Fprintln(w, “Hello, World!”) } Note that you can use any file name or package name (convention is to make package name same as directory name). To run locally, you'll need to create a main package to start your server (see instructions below for container builds to skip this step and match your local development environment to production): mkdir cmd Create a `cmd/main.go` file with the following contents: package main import ( “log” “os” // Blank-import the function package so the init() runs \_ "example.com/hello" "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-go/funcframework" ) func main() { // Use PORT environment variable, or default to 8080. port := “8080” if envPort := os.Getenv(“PORT”); envPort != "" { port = envPort } if err := funcframework.Start(port); err != nil { log.Fatalf(“funcframework.Start: %vn”, err) } } Run `go mod tidy` to update dependency requirements. Start the local development server: export FUNCTION_TARGET=HelloWorld go run cmd/main.go Output: Serving function: HelloWorld Upon starting, the framework will listen to HTTP requests at / and invoke your registered function specified by the FUNCTION_TARGET environment variable (i.e. FUNCTION_TARGET=HelloWorld). Send requests to this function using `curl` from another terminal window: curl localhost:8080 Output: Hello, World! Go further: build a deployable container Install Docker and the pack tool. Build a container from your function using the Functions [buildpacks](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/buildpacks): pack build –builder gcr.io/buildpacks/builder:v1 –env GOOGLE_FUNCTION_SIGNATURE_TYPE=http –env GOOGLE_FUNCTION_TARGET=HelloWorld my-first-function Start the built container: docker run –rm -p 8080:8080 my-first-function Output: Serving function… Send requests to this function using `curl` from another terminal window: curl localhost:8080 Output: Hello, World! Run your function on serverless platforms Google Cloud Functions Deploy from your local machine using the gcloud command-line tool. Check out the Cloud Functions quickstart. Container environments based on Knative The Functions Framework is designed to be compatible with Knative environments. Just build and deploy your container to a Knative environment. Note that your app needs to listen PORT environment variable per Knative runtime contract. Functions Framework Features The Go Functions Framework conforms to the Functions Framework Contract, As such, it supports HTTP functions, background event functions, and CloudEvent functions (as of v1.1.0). The primary build mechanism is the GCP buildpacks stack, which takes a function of one of the accepted types, converts it to a full HTTP serving app, and creates a launchable container to run the server. HTTP Functions The Framework provides support for handling native Go HTTP-style functions: package function import ( “net/http” "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-go/functions" ) func init() { functions.HTTP(“HelloWorld”, helloWorld) } func helloWorld(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Write([]byte(“Hello, World!”)) } CloudEvent Functions The Functions Framework provides support for unmarshalling an incoming CloudEvent payload into a cloudevents.Event object. These will be passed as arguments to your function when it receives a request. package function import ( cloudevents “github.com/cloudevents/sdk-go/v2” “github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-go/functions” ) func init() { functions.CloudEvent(“CloudEventFunc”, cloudEventFunc) } func cloudEventFunc(ctx context.Context, e cloudevents.Event) error { // Do something with event.Context and event.Data (via event.DataAs(foo)). return nil } These functions are registered with the handler via funcframework.RegisterCloudEventFunctionContext. To learn more about CloudEvents, see the Go SDK for CloudEvents. Background Event Functions Background events are also supported. This type of function takes two parameters: a Go context and a user-defined data struct. func BackgroundEventFunction(ctx context.Context, data userDefinedEventStruct) error { // Do something with ctx and data. } This type of event requires you to define a struct with the appropriate data fields (e.g. those for a PubSub message or GCS event) and pass that struct as the data parameter. See the samples for details. The context parameter is a Go context.Context, and contains additional event metadata under a functions-specific key. This data is accesible via the cloud.google.com/go/functions/metadata package: m := metadata.FromContext(ctx) These functions can be registered in main.go for local testing with the handler via funcframework.RegisterEventFunctionContext.