Functions-Client

The LivePerson Functions client for NodeJS.

It offers functionality to retrieve all lambdas and invoke them via lambda UUID or event IDs.

Table of Contents:

• Functions-Client
  • Overview
  • Install
  • Usage
    • Initializing the client
      • Optional Configuration Parameters
      • Collecting metrics
    • Method call examples
      • Invoking a lambda by UUID
      • Invoking a lambda by event
      • Checking if an event type/id is available/implemented
      • Getting a list of existing lambdas
    • Error handling

Overview

Capabilities:

• Invoking Lambdas
• Checking if an event is implemented by the account
• Getting lambdas of an account

Install

yarn add liveperson-functions-client

or

npm install liveperson-functions-client

Usage

Note: The library exposes typings for IDE assistance/auto-complete and compile time validation for TS projects.

Initializing the client

The client will use the OAuth2.0 flow client_credentials for authorization. Please refer to these docs for further information on that. On each request the client will check if the JWT is about to expire. If this is the case, the client will try to refresh it. If the JWT is expired and the client failed to refresh it, an Error is thrown. The time after which the refreshing logic will kick in can be specified via the property jwtRefreshAfterMinutes. Alternatively, you can provide your own authorization method that generates a suitable authorization header by implementing a method that fulfills the GetAuthorizationHeader-Interface:

export type GetAuthorizationHeader = (input: {
  url: string;
  method: string;
}) => Promise<string>;

Example:

// Default: Provide client id and client secret as auth strategy as follows
import { Client } from 'liveperson-functions-client';

const client = new Client({
  accountId: 'myAccountId',
  authStrategy: {
    clientId: 'myClientId',
    clientSecret: 'myClientSecret',
  },
});


// Alternative: Provide your own implementation of our type 'GetAuthorizationHeader'
import { Client, GetAuthorizationHeader } from 'liveperson-functions-client';

const getAuthorizationHeader: GetAuthorizationHeader = async ({
  url,
  method,
}) => {
  // example custom implementation
  const oauthApiKey = '...';
  const oauthApiSecret = '...';
  const oauthSignatureMethod = '...';

  const oAuth = new OAuth({
    consumer: {
      key: oauthApiKey,
      secret: oauthApiSecret,
    },
    signature_method: oauthSignatureMethod,
    realm: '',
    hash_function: (baseString: string, key: string): string => {
      return createHmac(oauthSignatureMethod.split('-')[1], key)
        .update(baseString)
        .digest('base64');
    },
  });

  return oAuth.toHeader(oAuth.authorize({ url, method })).Authorization;
};

const client = new Client({
  accountId: 'myAccountId',
  authStrategy: getAuthorizationHeader,
});

Optional configuration parameters

While authStrategy and accountId are obligatory parameters for the configuration of the client, multiple other parameters can be set optionally. If you do not set them we default back to our default configuration.

The optional parameters can be found in the interface default config which looks like this.

export interface DefaultConfig {
  readonly gwCsdsServiceName?: string;
  readonly uiCsdsServiceName?: string;
  readonly apiVersion?: string;
  readonly timeout?: number;
  readonly protocol?: typeof Protocol[keyof typeof Protocol];
  readonly getLambdasUri?: string;
  readonly invokeUuidUri?: string;
  readonly invokeEventUri?: string;
  readonly isImplementedUri?: string;
  readonly failOnErrorStatusCode?: boolean;
  /** Optional HTTP request headers that should be included in CSDS requests. */
  readonly csdsHttpHeaders?: { [key: string]: any };
  readonly csdsTtlSeconds?: number;
  /**
   * Time after which the JWT should be refreshed.
   */
  readonly jwtRefreshAfterMinutes?: number;

  readonly isImplementedCacheDurationInSeconds?: number;
}

// These values default to:

export const defaultConfig: Required<DefaultConfig> = {
  gwCsdsServiceName: 'faasGW',
  uiCsdsServiceName: 'faasUI',
  apiVersion: '1',
  timeout: 35000, // ms
  protocol: Protocol.HTTPS,
  getLambdasUri: 'api/account/%s/lambdas/',
  invokeUuidUri: 'api/account/%s/lambdas/%s/invoke',
  invokeEventUri: 'api/account/%s/events/%s/invoke',
  isImplementedUri: 'api/account/%s/events/%s/isImplemented',
  failOnErrorStatusCode: false,
  csdsHttpHeaders: {},
  csdsTtlSeconds: 600,
  jwtRefreshAfterMinutes: 30,
  isImplementedCacheDurationInSeconds: 60,
};

If you want to set one of these parameters, just add them to the object passed to the client as its first paramter in the initialization process. Below you can find an example where the optional config param isImplementedCacheDurationInSeconds is set.

const client = new Client({
  accountId: 'myAccountId',
  authStrategy: {
    clientId: 'myClientId',
    clientSecret: 'myClientSecret',
  },
  isImplementedCacheDurationInSeconds: 20;
});

Collecting metrics

If you want to collect metrics you may implement the interface MetricCollector and pass your implementation to the client when initializing it. The metrics are only held in memory and are not persisted. If you pass no implementation of MetricCollector the metrics will be ignored.

import { Client } from 'liveperson-functions-client';
const client = new Client(
  {
    accountId: 'myAccountId',
    authStrategy: {
      clientId: 'myClientId',
      clientSecret: 'myClientSecret',
    },
  },
{
    metricCollector: new MyMetricCollector(),
});

Method call examples

Invoking a lambda by UUID

const response = await client.invoke({
  lambdaUuid: 'uuid',
  externalSystem: 'demoSystem',
  body: {
    headers: [],
    payload: {
      foo: 'bar',
    },
  },
});

Invoking a lambda by event

const response = await client.invoke({
  eventId: 'eventId',
  externalSystem: 'demoSystem',
  body: {
    headers: [],
    payload: {
      foo: 'bar',
    },
  },
});

Check if an event type/id is available/implemented

const response = await client.isImplemented({
  eventId: 'eventId',
  externalSystem: 'demoSystem',
});

Getting a list of existing lambdas

You have to use your own authentication method when fetching lambdas as it still relies on OAuth 1.0.

const response = await client.getLambdas({
  eventId: 'eventId', // filter lambdas for events
  state: ['Productive', 'Draft'], // filter lambdas for deployment states
  userId: 'userId',
});

Error handling

Errors with the name FaaSLambdaError are raised when the invocation fails due to a custom implementation error. The client internally uses verror. We recommend to log the stack in order to get detailed information about the root cause.

try {
  // invoke here
  ...
} catch (error) {
  /**
   * LivePerson FunctionsLambdaErrors occur when the lambda fails due to the implementation.
   * These exceptions are not relevant for alerting, because there are no issues with the service itself.
   */
  if (error.name === "FaaSLambdaError") {
    console.info(error.stack, "Error caused by implementation of lambda.");
  } else {
    console.error(error.stack, "Something unexpected happened.");
  }
}

More detailed information on errors that can occur can be found here.