Use HTTP connection pooling

Shows how to recycle HTTP connections using HTTP connection pools.

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Code sample

Go


// Package http provides a set of HTTP Cloud Functions samples.
package http

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"time"
)

var urlString = "https://example.com"

// client is used to make HTTP requests with a 10 second timeout.
// http.Clients should be reused instead of created as needed.
var client = &http.Client{
	Timeout: 10 * time.Second,
}

// MakeRequest is an example of making an HTTP request. MakeRequest uses a
// single http.Client for all requests to take advantage of connection
// pooling and caching. See https://godoc.org/net/http#Client.
func MakeRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	resp, err := client.Get(urlString)
	if err != nil {
		http.Error(w, "Error making request", http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}
	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
		msg := fmt.Sprintf("Bad StatusCode: %d", resp.StatusCode)
		http.Error(w, msg, http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "ok")
}

Java


import com.google.cloud.functions.HttpFunction;
import com.google.cloud.functions.HttpRequest;
import com.google.cloud.functions.HttpResponse;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse.BodyHandlers;
import java.time.Duration;

public class SendHttpRequest implements HttpFunction {

  // Create a client with some reasonable defaults. This client can be reused for multiple requests.
  // (java.net.httpClient also pools connections automatically by default.)
  private static HttpClient client =
      HttpClient.newBuilder().connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10)).build();

  @Override
  public void service(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    // Create a GET sendHttpRequest to "http://example.com"
    String url = "http://example.com";
    var getRequest = java.net.http.HttpRequest.newBuilder().uri(URI.create(url)).GET().build();

    // Send the sendHttpRequest using the client
    var getResponse = client.send(getRequest, BodyHandlers.ofString());

    // Write the results to the output:
    var writer = new PrintWriter(response.getWriter());
    writer.printf("Received code '%s' from url '%s'.", getResponse.statusCode(), url);
  }
}

Node.js

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const http = require('http');
const https = require('https');

const httpAgent = new http.Agent({keepAlive: true});
const httpsAgent = new https.Agent({keepAlive: true});

/**
 * HTTP Cloud Function that caches an HTTP agent to pool HTTP connections.
 *
 * @param {Object} req Cloud Function request context.
 * @param {Object} res Cloud Function response context.
 */
exports.connectionPooling = async (req, res) => {
  try {
    // TODO(optional): replace this with your own URL.
    const url = 'https://www.example.com/';

    // Select the appropriate agent to use based on the URL.
    const agent = url.includes('https') ? httpsAgent : httpAgent;

    const {data} = await fetch(url, {agent});
    const text = await data.text();

    res.status(200).send(`Data: ${text}`);
  } catch (err) {
    res.status(500).send(`Error: ${err.message}`);
  }
};

Python

import requests

# Create a global HTTP session (which provides connection pooling)
session = requests.Session()


def connection_pooling(request):
    """
    HTTP Cloud Function that uses a connection pool to make HTTP requests.
    Args:
        request (flask.Request): The request object.
        <http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/api/#flask.Request>
    Returns:
        The response text, or any set of values that can be turned into a
        Response object using `make_response`
        <http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/api/#flask.Flask.make_response>.
    """

    # The URL to send the request to
    url = 'http://example.com'

    # Process the request
    response = session.get(url)
    response.raise_for_status()
    return 'Success!'

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