functions.md

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OpenWhisk - Functions

If you are using OpenWhisk as a provider, all functions inside the service are OpenWhisk Actions.

Configuration

All of the OpenWhisk Actions in your serverless service can be found in serverless.yml under the functions property.

# serverless.yml
service: myService

provider:
  name: openwhisk
  runtime: nodejs:6 # optional, default is nodejs:default
  memorySize: 512 # optional, default is 256
  timeout: 30 # optional, default is 60

functions:
  hello:
    handler: handler.hello # required, handler set in Apache OpenWhisk
    name: some_custom_name # optional, default is ${service}_${function}
    runtime: nodejs # optional overwrite, default is provider runtime
    memory: 512 # optional overwrite, default is 256
    timeout: 10 # optional overwrite, default is 60

The handler property points to the file and module containing the code you want to run in your function.

// handler.js
exports.handler = function(params) {}

You can add as many functions as you want within this property.

# serverless.yml

service: myService

provider:
  name: openwhisk

functions:
  functionOne:
    handler: handler.functionOne
    description: optional description for your Action
  functionTwo:
    handler: handler.functionTwo
  functionThree:
    handler: handler.functionThree

Your functions can either inherit their settings from the provider property.

# serverless.yml
service: myService

provider:
  name: openwhisk
  runtime: nodejs:6
  memory: 512 # will be inherited by all functions

functions:
  functionOne:
    handler: handler.functionOne

Or you can specify properties at the function level.

# serverless.yml
service: myService

provider:
  name: openwhisk
  runtime: nodejs:6

functions:
  functionOne:
    handler: handler.functionOne
    memory: 512 # function specific

Runtimes

The OpenWhisk provider plugin supports the following runtimes.

• Node.js
• Python
• Php
• Swift
• Binary
• Docker

Please see the following repository for sample projects using those runtimes.

https://github.com/serverless/examples/