Create an HTTP task within an App Engine app

Creates an HTTP task within an App Engine application to trigger a Cloud Function.

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Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud Tasks, see Cloud Tasks client libraries.

To authenticate to Cloud Tasks, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

const MAX_SCHEDULE_LIMIT = 30 * 60 * 60 * 24; // Represents 30 days in seconds.

const createHttpTaskWithToken = async function (
  project = 'my-project-id', // Your GCP Project id
  queue = 'my-queue', // Name of your Queue
  location = 'us-central1', // The GCP region of your queue
  url = 'https://example.com/taskhandler', // The full url path that the request will be sent to
  email = '<member>@<project-id>.iam.gserviceaccount.com', // Cloud IAM service account
  payload = 'Hello, World!', // The task HTTP request body
  date = new Date() // Intended date to schedule task
) {
  // Imports the Google Cloud Tasks library.
  const {v2beta3} = require('@google-cloud/tasks');

  // Instantiates a client.
  const client = new v2beta3.CloudTasksClient();

  // Construct the fully qualified queue name.
  const parent = client.queuePath(project, location, queue);

  // Convert message to buffer.
  const convertedPayload = JSON.stringify(payload);
  const body = Buffer.from(convertedPayload).toString('base64');

  const task = {
    httpRequest: {
      httpMethod: 'POST',
      url,
      oidcToken: {
        serviceAccountEmail: email,
        audience: url,
      },
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body,
    },
  };

  const convertedDate = new Date(date);
  const currentDate = new Date();

  // Schedule time can not be in the past.
  if (convertedDate < currentDate) {
    console.error('Scheduled date in the past.');
  } else if (convertedDate > currentDate) {
    const date_diff_in_seconds = (convertedDate - currentDate) / 1000;
    // Restrict schedule time to the 30 day maximum.
    if (date_diff_in_seconds > MAX_SCHEDULE_LIMIT) {
      console.error('Schedule time is over 30 day maximum.');
    }
    // Construct future date in Unix time.
    const date_in_seconds =
      Math.min(date_diff_in_seconds, MAX_SCHEDULE_LIMIT) + Date.now() / 1000;
    // Add schedule time to request in Unix time using Timestamp structure.
    // https://googleapis.dev/nodejs/tasks/latest/google.protobuf.html#.Timestamp
    task.scheduleTime = {
      seconds: date_in_seconds,
    };
  }

  try {
    // Send create task request.
    const [response] = await client.createTask({parent, task});
    console.log(`Created task ${response.name}`);
    return response.name;
  } catch (error) {
    // Construct error for Stackdriver Error Reporting
    console.error(Error(error.message));
  }
};

module.exports = createHttpTaskWithToken;

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