How to trigger Functions from App Platform, and fetch the results?

I’m trying to implement functions on App Platform, but am struggling to hook up the various pieces to each other. I’m using Django on linux.

I followed this tutorial https://github.com/digitalocean/sample-functions-python-jokes and was able to run the function in its own namespace in Functions (unconnected to App Platform).

Then I tried to adapt it to my own, but needed to import environmental variables. I think you can’t do that from Functions, you have to add it as a resource on your app in App Platform itself, following this tutorial: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/manage-functions/. I got the function to build again, but can’t figure out how to trigger it.

The url it shows in the control panel after build is joke/joke.

• I tried going to <mydomain>/joke/joke and Django returned "404 Page Not Found". This is what they allege is the live function URL.
• I went to <mydomain>/do-functions-sample-jokes/ and it returned "Incomplete web function path. The path must contain /$namespace/$package/$function, $package can be 'default'."
• I tried <mydomain>/do-functions-sample-jokes/joke/joke/ and it returned “There was an error processing your request.”
• I created a Django view that should spit out the json, and tried to fetch it from /joke/joke, and it doesn’t return anything except the html header
• my app name is beyondyield1, maybe that’s my namespace? I tried both <mydomain>/beyondyield1/do-functions-sample-jokes/joke and <mydomain>/beyondyield1/do-functions-sample-jokes/joke/joke and Django still tries to intercept it, and returns a 404.

How do I trigger this function and fetch the results?