Call a Serverless Function from another Serverless Function

Posted on March 5, 2024

Hello all. How can I call a non-web Serverless Function from another non-web Serverless Function, including passing arguments (in GET/POST)? Thanks!

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Bobby

March 6, 2024

Hey @morsagmonstarfish,

As of the moment, the only way to trigger a non-web based function is to use a cron scheduler as described here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/reference/project-configuration/#triggers

The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/

In the meantime, what you could do is to deploy your function as a web-based function and define a webSecure parameter which enables authentication for web functions and sets the secret token to the given value. You must provide the secret during HTTP requests by using the X-Require-Whisk-Auth: <secret-token> header.

Hope that helps!

- Bobby.