Set up Lambda custom integrations in API Gateway - Amazon API Gateway
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Set up Lambda custom integrations in API Gateway

To show how to set up the Lambda custom integration, we create an API Gateway API to expose the GET /greeting?greeter={name} method to invoke a Lambda function. Use one of the following example Lambda functions for you API.

Use one of the following example Lambda functions:

Node.js
export const handler = function(event, context, callback) {
    var res ={
        "statusCode": 200,
        "headers": {
            "Content-Type": "*/*"
        }
    };
    if (event.greeter==null) {
        callback(new Error('Missing the required greeter parameter.'));
    } else if (event.greeter === "") {
        res.body = "Hello, World";
        callback(null, res);
    } else {
        res.body = "Hello, " + event.greeter +"!";
        callback(null, res);
    }
};
Python
import json


def lambda_handler(event, context):
    print(event)
    res = {
        "statusCode": 200,
        "headers": {
            "Content-Type": "*/*"
        }
    }

    if event['greeter'] == "":
        res['body'] = "Hello, World"
    elif (event['greeter']):
        res['body'] = "Hello, " + event['greeter'] + "!"
    else:
        raise Exception('Missing the required greeter parameter.')

    return res

The function responds with a message of "Hello, {name}!" if the greeter parameter value is a non-empty string. It returns a message of "Hello, World!" if the greeter value is an empty string. The function returns an error message of "Missing the required greeter parameter." if the greeter parameter is not set in the incoming request. We name the function HelloWorld.

You can create it in the Lambda console or by using the Amazon CLI. In this section, we reference this function using the following ARN:

arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:HelloWorld

With the Lambda function set in the backend, proceed to set up the API.

To set up the Lambda custom integration using the Amazon CLI

  1. Call the create-rest-api command to create an API:

    aws apigateway create-rest-api --name 'HelloWorld (Amazon CLI)' --region us-west-2

    Note the resulting API's id value (te6si5ach7) in the response:

    {
    "name": "HelloWorld (Amazon CLI)", 
    "id": "te6si5ach7", 
    "createdDate": 1508461860
}

    You need the API id throughout this section.

  2. Call the get-resources command to get the root resource id:

    aws apigateway get-resources --rest-api-id te6si5ach7 --region us-west-2

    The successful response is as follows:

    {
    "items": [
        {
            "path": "/", 
            "id": "krznpq9xpg"
        }
    ]
}

    Note the root resource id value (krznpq9xpg). You need it in the next step and later.

  3. Call create-resource to create an API Gateway Resource of /greeting:

    aws apigateway create-resource --rest-api-id te6si5ach7 \
      --region us-west-2 \
      --parent-id krznpq9xpg \
      --path-part greeting

    The successful response is similar to the following:

    {
    "path": "/greeting", 
    "pathPart": "greeting", 
    "id": "2jf6xt", 
    "parentId": "krznpq9xpg"
}

    Note the resulting greeting resource's id value (2jf6xt). You need it to create a method on the /greeting resource in the next step.

  4. Call put-method to create an API method request of GET /greeting?greeter={name}:

    aws apigateway put-method --rest-api-id te6si5ach7 \
       --region us-west-2 \
       --resource-id 2jf6xt \
       --http-method GET \
       --authorization-type "NONE" \
       --request-parameters method.request.querystring.greeter=false

    The successful response is similar to the following:

    {
    "apiKeyRequired": false, 
    "httpMethod": "GET", 
    "authorizationType": "NONE", 
    "requestParameters": {
        "method.request.querystring.greeter": false
    }
}

    This API method allows the client to receive a greeting from the Lambda function at the backend. The greeter parameter is optional because the backend should handle either an anonymous caller or a self-identified caller.

  5. Call put-method-response to set up the 200 OK response to the method request of GET /greeting?greeter={name}:

    aws apigateway put-method-response \
        --region us-west-2 \
        --rest-api-id te6si5ach7 \ 
        --resource-id 2jf6xt \
        --http-method GET \
        --status-code 200

  6. Call put-integration to set up the integration of the GET /greeting?greeter={name} method with a Lambda function, named HelloWorld. The function responds to the request with a message of "Hello, {name}!", if the greeter parameter is provided, or "Hello, World!", if the query string parameter is not set.

    aws apigateway put-integration \
        --region us-west-2 \
        --rest-api-id te6si5ach7 \
        --resource-id 2jf6xt \
        --http-method GET \
        --type Amazon \
        --integration-http-method POST \
        --uri arn:aws:apigateway:us-east-1:lambda:path/2015-03-31/functions/arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:HelloWorld/invocations \
        --request-templates '{"application/json":"{\"greeter\":\"$input.params('greeter')\"}"}' \
        --credentials arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/apigAwsProxyRole

    The mapping template supplied here translates the greeter query string parameter to the greeter property of the JSON payload. This is necessary because the input to a Lambda function must be expressed in the body.

    Important

    For Lambda integrations, you must use the HTTP method of POST for the integration request, according to the specification of the Lambda service action for function invocations. The uri parameter is the ARN of the function-invoking action.

    Successful output is similar to the following:

    {
    "passthroughBehavior": "WHEN_NO_MATCH", 
    "cacheKeyParameters": [], 
    "uri": "arn:aws:apigateway:us-east-1:lambda:path/2015-03-31/functions/arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:HelloWorld/invocations", 
    "httpMethod": "POST", 
    "requestTemplates": {
        "application/json": "{\"greeter\":\"$input.params('greeter')\"}"
    }, 
    "cacheNamespace": "krznpq9xpg", 
    "credentials": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/apigAwsProxyRole", 
    "type": "AWS"
}

    The IAM role of apigAwsProxyRole must have policies that allow the apigateway service to invoke Lambda functions. Instead of supplying an IAM role for credentials, you can call the add-permission command to add resource-based permissions. This is how the API Gateway console adds these permissions.

  7. Call put-integration-response to set up the integration response to pass the Lambda function output to the client as the 200 OK method response.

     aws apigateway put-integration-response \
        --region us-west-2 \
        --rest-api-id te6si5ach7 \
        --resource-id 2jf6xt \
        --http-method GET \
        --status-code 200 \
        --selection-pattern ""

    By setting the selection-pattern to an empty string, the 200 OK response is the default.

    The successful response should be similar to the following:

     {
    "selectionPattern": "", 
    "statusCode": "200"
}

  8. Call create-deployment to deploy the API to a test stage:

    aws apigateway create-deployment --rest-api-id te6si5ach7 --stage-name test --region us-west-2

  9. Test the API using the following cURL command in a terminal:

    curl -X GET 'https://te6si5ach7.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/test/greeting?greeter=me' \
  -H 'authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential={access_key}/20171020/us-west-2/execute-api/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date, Signature=f327...5751'