Cloud Functions (1st Gen): Pub/Sub Hello World

Example Pub/Sub-triggered function that runs on Cloud Functions (1st Gen).

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C#

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using CloudNative.CloudEvents;
using Google.Cloud.Functions.Framework;
using Google.Events.Protobuf.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace HelloPubSub;

public class Function : ICloudEventFunction<MessagePublishedData>
{
    private readonly ILogger _logger;

    public Function(ILogger<Function> logger) =>
        _logger = logger;

    public Task HandleAsync(CloudEvent cloudEvent, MessagePublishedData data, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        string nameFromMessage = data.Message?.TextData;
        string name = string.IsNullOrEmpty(nameFromMessage) ? "world" : nameFromMessage;
        _logger.LogInformation("Hello {name}", name);
        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }
}

Go

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// Package helloworld provides a set of Cloud Functions samples.
package helloworld

import (
	"context"
	"log"
)

// PubSubMessage is the payload of a Pub/Sub event.
// See the documentation for more details:
// https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/reference/rest/v1/PubsubMessage
type PubSubMessage struct {
	Data []byte `json:"data"`
}

// HelloPubSub consumes a Pub/Sub message.
func HelloPubSub(ctx context.Context, m PubSubMessage) error {
	name := string(m.Data) // Automatically decoded from base64.
	if name == "" {
		name = "World"
	}
	log.Printf("Hello, %s!", name)
	return nil
}

Java

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import com.google.cloud.functions.BackgroundFunction;
import com.google.cloud.functions.Context;
import functions.eventpojos.PubsubMessage;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class HelloPubSub implements BackgroundFunction<PubsubMessage> {
  private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(HelloPubSub.class.getName());

  @Override
  public void accept(PubsubMessage message, Context context) {
    String name = "world";
    if (message != null && message.getData() != null) {
      name = new String(
          Base64.getDecoder().decode(message.getData().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)),
          StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
    logger.info(String.format("Hello %s!", name));
    return;
  }
}

Kotlin

import com.google.cloud.functions.BackgroundFunction
import com.google.cloud.functions.Context
import functions.eventpojos.PubsubMessage
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
import java.util.Base64
import java.util.logging.Logger


class KotlinHelloPubSub : BackgroundFunction<PubsubMessage> {
    override fun accept(message: PubsubMessage, context: Context) {
        // name's default value is "world"
        var name = "world"
        if (message?.data != null) {
            name = String(
                    Base64.getDecoder().decode(message.data!!.toByteArray(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)),
                    StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
        }
        LOGGER.info(String.format("Hello %s!", name))
        return;
    }

    companion object {
        private val LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(KotlinHelloPubSub::class.java.name)
    }
}

Node.js

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/**
 * Background Cloud Function to be triggered by Pub/Sub.
 * This function is exported by index.js, and executed when
 * the trigger topic receives a message.
 *
 * @param {object} message The Pub/Sub message.
 * @param {object} context The event metadata.
 */
exports.helloPubSub = (message, context) => {
  const name = message.data
    ? Buffer.from(message.data, 'base64').toString()
    : 'World';

  console.log(`Hello, ${name}!`);
};

PHP

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use CloudEvents\V1\CloudEventInterface;
use Google\CloudFunctions\FunctionsFramework;

// Register the function with Functions Framework.
// This enables omitting the `FUNCTIONS_SIGNATURE_TYPE=cloudevent` environment
// variable when deploying. The `FUNCTION_TARGET` environment variable should
// match the first parameter.
FunctionsFramework::cloudEvent('helloworldPubsub', 'helloworldPubsub');

function helloworldPubsub(CloudEventInterface $event): void
{
    $log = fopen(getenv('LOGGER_OUTPUT') ?: 'php://stderr', 'wb');

    $cloudEventData = $event->getData();
    $pubSubData = base64_decode($cloudEventData['message']['data']);

    $name = $pubSubData ? htmlspecialchars($pubSubData) : 'World';
    fwrite($log, "Hello, $name!" . PHP_EOL);
}

Python

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def hello_pubsub(event, context):
    """Background Cloud Function to be triggered by Pub/Sub.
    Args:
         event (dict):  The dictionary with data specific to this type of
                        event. The `@type` field maps to
                         `type.googleapis.com/google.pubsub.v1.PubsubMessage`.
                        The `data` field maps to the PubsubMessage data
                        in a base64-encoded string. The `attributes` field maps
                        to the PubsubMessage attributes if any is present.
         context (google.cloud.functions.Context): Metadata of triggering event
                        including `event_id` which maps to the PubsubMessage
                        messageId, `timestamp` which maps to the PubsubMessage
                        publishTime, `event_type` which maps to
                        `google.pubsub.topic.publish`, and `resource` which is
                        a dictionary that describes the service API endpoint
                        pubsub.googleapis.com, the triggering topic's name, and
                        the triggering event type
                        `type.googleapis.com/google.pubsub.v1.PubsubMessage`.
    Returns:
        None. The output is written to Cloud Logging.
    """
    import base64

    print("""This Function was triggered by messageId {} published at {} to {}
    """.format(context.event_id, context.timestamp, context.resource["name"]))

    if 'data' in event:
        name = base64.b64decode(event['data']).decode('utf-8')
    else:
        name = 'World'
    print(f'Hello {name}!')

Ruby

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require "functions_framework"
require "base64"

FunctionsFramework.cloud_event "hello_pubsub" do |event|
  # The event parameter is a CloudEvents::Event::V1 object.
  # See https://cloudevents.github.io/sdk-ruby/latest/CloudEvents/Event/V1.html
  name = Base64.decode64 event.data["message"]["data"] rescue "World"

  # A cloud_event function does not return a response, but you can log messages
  # or cause side effects such as sending additional events.
  logger.info "Hello, #{name}!"
end

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