SEseniorsassycat·Jan 18, 2018
I'm not sure, I copied that from the aws/aws-lambda-go repo https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go
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Libraries, samples and tools to help Go developers develop AWS Lambda functions.
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5 sourcesImplementing a Go lambda is already more complicated than writing a function. It requires binding to a TCP port and receiving gob encoded values. AWS released a library that abstracts that into
// main.go
package main
import (
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)
func hello() (string, error) {
return "Hello ƛ!", nil
}
func main() {
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// Make the handler available for Remote Procedure Call by AWS Lambda
lambda.Start(hello)
}
lambda.Start is the abstraction wrapper.
It looks like the compiled binary just gets exec'd by the Lambda function and listens on a TCP port (specified by the environment variable _LAMBDA_SERVER_PORT) which accepts RPC calls to execute the handler using net/rpc.
The code: https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/blob/master/lambda/entr...
In AWS Lambda Releases Go SupportLooks like the "Go support" is just running a precompiled binary that starts a TCP listener (https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/blob/master/lambda/entr...), so might not be that hard to port...
In AWS Lambda Releases Go SupportAWS Lambda Releases Go Support
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