Tag: lambda

Using the V2 Golang SDK for AWS and trying to call PostToConnection from a Lambda I was consistently getting this 403 error result: I was trying to make the call from a different stack than the websocket connection was on so I thought that might be the problem. After much research the issue actually turned out to be simpler than that. There is nothing special about the stack that requires extra permission (unless the stages are in different regions, I haven’t done that yet but it looks like there is more work required if you are). The issue for me [Read on…]

I had a lot of trouble getting the API Gateway socket management calls to work using the AWS SDK V2 version of the Golang SDK. The problem was that I was not invoking the right endpoint. So that I remember in the future how to do this and to help anyone having similar problems here’s the magic formula I finally learned. Endpoint Value First you need to know the endpoint to use to make calls against. You can either look it up in the AWS console or get it dynamically from the request. I chose to get it from the [Read on…]

Ah character encoding, my old friend, I have not missed you. I was visited recently by a recurring demon from my past, character encoding. Sometimes it seems like every new environment is just waiting to spring some encoding problem on me. Since pretty much all modern environments use utf-8, these are at least getting rarer. This post describes how to ensure that responses from API Gateway endpoints from Go are properly interpreted by the receiver. Lambda Proxy Response The response from a Lambda proxy integration to API Gateway in Go is usually an APIGatewayResponse object. In my case I was [Read on…]

As part of a recent project, I was trying to get the parameters from a REST call on AWS API Gateway in a Go Lambda. I found the documentation to be a bit scattered and hard to find so I have documented what I learned. The answer is simple so hopefully this doc helps someone else who struggled with the docs. API Gateway to Lambda Integration There are two main ways of invoking a Lambda from an API Gateway endpoint. All of my code uses proxy integration. There’s a section here that describes the differences, and as far as I [Read on…]