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Chapter 27. AWS Lambda Component

Available as of Camel version 2.20

The Lambda component supports create, get, list, delete and invoke AWS Lambda functions.

Prerequisites

You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account, and be signed up to use Amazon Lambda. More information are available at Amazon Lambda.

When creating a Lambda function, you need to specify a IAM role which has at least the AWSLambdaBasicExecuteRole policy attached.

Warning

Lambda is regional service. Unlike S3 bucket, Lambda function created in a given region is not available on other regions.

27.1. URI Format

aws-lambda://functionName[?options]

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?options=value&option2=value&…​

27.2. URI Options

The AWS Lambda component supports 5 options which are listed below.

NameDescriptionDefaultType

configuration (advanced)

The AWS Lambda default configuration

 

LambdaConfiguration

accessKey (producer)

Amazon AWS Access Key

 

String

secretKey (producer)

Amazon AWS Secret Key

 

String

region (producer)

Amazon AWS Region

 

String

resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

boolean

The AWS Lambda endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

aws-lambda:function

with the following path and query parameters:

27.2.1. Path Parameters (1 parameters):

NameDescriptionDefaultType

function

Required Name of the Lambda function.

 

String

27.2.2. Query Parameters (8 parameters):

NameDescriptionDefaultType

operation (producer)

Required The operation to perform. It can be listFunctions, getFunction, createFunction, deleteFunction or invokeFunction

 

LambdaOperations

region (producer)

Amazon AWS Region

 

String

awsLambdaClient (advanced)

To use a existing configured AwsLambdaClient as client

 

AWSLambda

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

proxyHost (proxy)

To define a proxy host when instantiating the Lambda client

 

String

proxyPort (proxy)

To define a proxy port when instantiating the Lambda client

 

Integer

accessKey (security)

Amazon AWS Access Key

 

String

secretKey (security)

Amazon AWS Secret Key

 

String

Required Lambda component options

You have to provide the awsLambdaClient in the Registry or your accessKey and secretKey to access the Amazon Lambda service.

27.3. Usage

27.3.1. Message headers evaluated by the Lambda producer

OperationHeaderTypeDescriptionRequired

All

CamelAwsLambdaOperation

String

The operation we want to perform. Override operation passed as query parameter

Yes

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaS3Bucket

String

Amazon S3 bucket name where the .zip file containing your deployment package is stored. This bucket must reside in the same AWS region where you are creating the Lambda function.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaS3Key

String

The Amazon S3 object (the deployment package) key name you want to upload.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaS3ObjectVersion

String

The Amazon S3 object (the deployment package) version you want to upload.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaZipFile

String

The local path of the zip file (the deployment package). Content of zip file can also be put in Message body.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaRole

String

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role that Lambda assumes when it executes your function to access any other Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources.

Yes

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaRuntime

String

The runtime environment for the Lambda function you are uploading. (nodejs, nodejs4.3, nodejs6.10, java8, python2.7, python3.6, dotnetcore1.0, odejs4.3-edge)

Yes

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaHandler

String

The function within your code that Lambda calls to begin execution. For Node.js, it is the module-name.export value in your function. For Java, it can be package.class-name::handler or package.class-name.

Yes

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaDescription

String

The user-provided description.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaTargetArn

String

The parent object that contains the target ARN (Amazon Resource Name) of an Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaMemorySize

Integer

The memory size, in MB, you configured for the function. Must be a multiple of 64 MB.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaKMSKeyArn

String

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the KMS key used to encrypt your function’s environment variables. If not provided, AWS Lambda will use a default service key.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaPublish

Boolean

This boolean parameter can be used to request AWS Lambda to create the Lambda function and publish a version as an atomic operation.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaTimeout

Integer

The function execution time at which Lambda should terminate the function. The default is 3 seconds.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaTracingConfig

String

Your function’s tracing settings (Active or PassThrough).

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaEnvironmentVariables

Map<String, String>

The key-value pairs that represent your environment’s configuration settings.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaEnvironmentTags

Map<String, String>

The list of tags (key-value pairs) assigned to the new function.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaSecurityGroupIds

List<String>

If your Lambda function accesses resources in a VPC, a list of one or more security groups IDs in your VPC.

No

createFunction

CamelAwsLambdaSubnetIds

List<String>

If your Lambda function accesses resources in a VPC, a list of one or more subnet IDs in your VPC.

No

Dependencies

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml.

pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-aws</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>

where ${camel-version} must be replaced by the actual version of Camel (2.16 or higher).

27.4. See Also

  • Configuring Camel
  • Component
  • Endpoint
  • Getting Started
  • AWS Component