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Invoke a Lambda function from an Amazon MSK trigger

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Invoke a Lambda function from an Amazon MSK trigger - AWS Lambda

The following code examples show how to implement a Lambda function that receives an event triggered by receiving records from an Amazon MSK cluster. The function retrieves the MSK payload and logs the record contents.

.NET
SDK for .NET
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using .NET.

using System.Text; using Amazon.Lambda.Core; using Amazon.Lambda.KafkaEvents; // Assembly attribute to enable the Lambda function's JSON input to be converted into a .NET class. [assembly: LambdaSerializer(typeof(Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.SystemTextJson.DefaultLambdaJsonSerializer))] namespace MSKLambda; public class Function { /// <param name="input">The event for the Lambda function handler to process.</param> /// <param name="context">The ILambdaContext that provides methods for logging and describing the Lambda environment.</param> /// <returns></returns> public void FunctionHandler(KafkaEvent evnt, ILambdaContext context) { foreach (var record in evnt.Records) { Console.WriteLine("Key:" + record.Key); foreach (var eventRecord in record.Value) { var valueBytes = eventRecord.Value.ToArray(); var valueText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(valueBytes); Console.WriteLine("Message:" + valueText); } } } }
Go
SDK for Go V2
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using Go.

package main import ( "encoding/base64" "fmt" "github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events" "github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda" ) func handler(event events.KafkaEvent) { for key, records := range event.Records { fmt.Println("Key:", key) for _, record := range records { fmt.Println("Record:", record) decodedValue, _ := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(record.Value) message := string(decodedValue) fmt.Println("Message:", message) } } } func main() { lambda.Start(handler) }
Java
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using Java.

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context; import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler; import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.KafkaEvent; import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.KafkaEvent.KafkaEventRecord; import java.util.Base64; import java.util.Map; public class Example implements RequestHandler<KafkaEvent, Void> { @Override public Void handleRequest(KafkaEvent event, Context context) { for (Map.Entry<String, java.util.List<KafkaEventRecord>> entry : event.getRecords().entrySet()) { String key = entry.getKey(); System.out.println("Key: " + key); for (KafkaEventRecord record : entry.getValue()) { System.out.println("Record: " + record); byte[] value = Base64.getDecoder().decode(record.getValue()); String message = new String(value); System.out.println("Message: " + message); } } return null; } }
JavaScript
SDK for JavaScript (v3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using JavaScript.

exports.handler = async (event) => { // Iterate through keys for (let key in event.records) { console.log('Key: ', key) // Iterate through records event.records[key].map((record) => { console.log('Record: ', record) // Decode base64 const msg = Buffer.from(record.value, 'base64').toString() console.log('Message:', msg) }) } }

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using TypeScript.

import { MSKEvent, Context } from "aws-lambda"; import { Buffer } from "buffer"; import { Logger } from "@aws-lambda-powertools/logger"; const logger = new Logger({ logLevel: "INFO", serviceName: "msk-handler-sample", }); export const handler = async ( event: MSKEvent, context: Context ): Promise<void> => { for (const [topic, topicRecords] of Object.entries(event.records)) { logger.info(`Processing key: ${topic}`); // Process each record in the partition for (const record of topicRecords) { try { // Decode the message value from base64 const decodedMessage = Buffer.from(record.value, 'base64').toString(); logger.info({ message: decodedMessage }); } catch (error) { logger.error('Error processing event', { error }); throw error; } }; } }
PHP
SDK for PHP
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using PHP.

<?php // Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 // using bref/bref and bref/logger for simplicity use Bref\Context\Context; use Bref\Event\Kafka\KafkaEvent; use Bref\Event\Handler as StdHandler; use Bref\Logger\StderrLogger; require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; class Handler implements StdHandler { private StderrLogger $logger; public function __construct(StderrLogger $logger) { $this->logger = $logger; } /** * @throws JsonException * @throws \Bref\Event\InvalidLambdaEvent */ public function handle(mixed $event, Context $context): void { $kafkaEvent = new KafkaEvent($event); $this->logger->info("Processing records"); $records = $kafkaEvent->getRecords(); foreach ($records as $record) { try { $key = $record->getKey(); $this->logger->info("Key: $key"); $values = $record->getValue(); $this->logger->info(json_encode($values)); foreach ($values as $value) { $this->logger->info("Value: $value"); } } catch (Exception $e) { $this->logger->error($e->getMessage()); } } $totalRecords = count($records); $this->logger->info("Successfully processed $totalRecords records"); } } $logger = new StderrLogger(); return new Handler($logger);
Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using Python.

import base64 def lambda_handler(event, context): # Iterate through keys for key in event['records']: print('Key:', key) # Iterate through records for record in event['records'][key]: print('Record:', record) # Decode base64 msg = base64.b64decode(record['value']).decode('utf-8') print('Message:', msg)
Ruby
SDK for Ruby
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using Ruby.

require 'base64' def lambda_handler(event:, context:) # Iterate through keys event['records'].each do |key, records| puts "Key: #{key}" # Iterate through records records.each do |record| puts "Record: #{record}" # Decode base64 msg = Base64.decode64(record['value']) puts "Message: #{msg}" end end end
Rust
SDK for Rust
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using Rust.

use aws_lambda_events::event::kafka::KafkaEvent; use lambda_runtime::{run, service_fn, tracing, Error, LambdaEvent}; use base64::prelude::*; use serde_json::{Value}; use tracing::{info}; /// Pre-Requisites: /// 1. Install Cargo Lambda - see https://www.cargo-lambda.info/guide/getting-started.html /// 2. Add packages tracing, tracing-subscriber, serde_json, base64 /// /// This is the main body for the function. /// Write your code inside it. /// There are some code example in the following URLs: /// - https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime/tree/main/examples /// - https://github.com/aws-samples/serverless-rust-demo/ async fn function_handler(event: LambdaEvent<KafkaEvent>) -> Result<Value, Error> { let payload = event.payload.records; for (_name, records) in payload.iter() { for record in records { let record_text = record.value.as_ref().ok_or("Value is None")?; info!("Record: {}", &record_text); // perform Base64 decoding let record_bytes = BASE64_STANDARD.decode(record_text)?; let message = std::str::from_utf8(&record_bytes)?; info!("Message: {}", message); } } Ok(().into()) } #[tokio::main] async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> { // required to enable CloudWatch error logging by the runtime tracing::init_default_subscriber(); info!("Setup CW subscriber!"); run(service_fn(function_handler)).await }
SDK for .NET
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Serverless examples repository.

Consuming an Amazon MSK event with Lambda using .NET.

using System.Text; using Amazon.Lambda.Core; using Amazon.Lambda.KafkaEvents; // Assembly attribute to enable the Lambda function's JSON input to be converted into a .NET class. [assembly: LambdaSerializer(typeof(Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.SystemTextJson.DefaultLambdaJsonSerializer))] namespace MSKLambda; public class Function { /// <param name="input">The event for the Lambda function handler to process.</param> /// <param name="context">The ILambdaContext that provides methods for logging and describing the Lambda environment.</param> /// <returns></returns> public void FunctionHandler(KafkaEvent evnt, ILambdaContext context) { foreach (var record in evnt.Records) { Console.WriteLine("Key:" + record.Key); foreach (var eventRecord in record.Value) { var valueBytes = eventRecord.Value.ToArray(); var valueText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(valueBytes); Console.WriteLine("Message:" + valueText); } } } }

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using Lambda with an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.

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