AWS Lambda Payloads - amazon-web-services

Question

I searched on AWS Lambda documentation but couldn't find an answer to my problem.
Is there a way I can access the entire request body from a Lambda function (written in node.js)?
The event parameter only seems to contain parsed JSON properties.

Answer 1

Your request body needs to be in XML or JSON in order to be able to access it in your Lambda function. You need to specify how it's processed/mapped and passed through in Integration Request section of the API Gateway dashboard.

Answer 2

You can access the request body in AWS Lambda once you expose it in a Body Mapping Template.
Open up your method in API Gateway console
Open Integration Request
In Integration Request, open the Body Mapping Templates panel
Add a Content Type of application/json
Click on your freshly created application/json item
Add the following template:
{
"body" : $input.json('$')
}
After that you can access the request body as event.body in your Node.js Lambda Function.

Answer 3

As an alternative, you might consider setting up lambda as a simple proxy if it works better for your use case. I've found more people using this technique recently.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-set-up-simple-proxy.html
A request like the following:
POST /testStage/hello/world?name=me HTTP/1.1
Host: gy415nuibc.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Content-Type: application/json
headerName: headerValue
{
"a": 1
}
Will wind up sending the following event data to your AWS Lambda function:
{
"message": "Hello me!",
"input": {
"resource": "/{proxy+}",
"path": "/hello/world",
"httpMethod": "POST",
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
"cache-control": "no-cache",
"CloudFront-Forwarded-Proto": "https",
"CloudFront-Is-Desktop-Viewer": "true",
"CloudFront-Is-Mobile-Viewer": "false",
"CloudFront-Is-SmartTV-Viewer": "false",
"CloudFront-Is-Tablet-Viewer": "false",
"CloudFront-Viewer-Country": "US",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"headerName": "headerValue",
"Host": "gy415nuibc.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
"Postman-Token": "9f583ef0-ed83-4a38-aef3-eb9ce3f7a57f",
"User-Agent": "PostmanRuntime/2.4.5",
"Via": "1.1 d98420743a69852491bbdea73f7680bd.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)",
"X-Amz-Cf-Id": "pn-PWIJc6thYnZm5P0NMgOUglL1DYtl0gdeJky8tqsg8iS_sgsKD1A==",
"X-Forwarded-For": "54.240.196.186, 54.182.214.83",
"X-Forwarded-Port": "443",
"X-Forwarded-Proto": "https"
},
"queryStringParameters": {
"name": "me"
},
"pathParameters": {
"proxy": "hello/world"
},
"stageVariables": {
"stageVariableName": "stageVariableValue"
},
"requestContext": {
"accountId": "12345678912",
"resourceId": "roq9wj",
"stage": "testStage",
"requestId": "deef4878-7910-11e6-8f14-25afc3e9ae33",
"identity": {
"cognitoIdentityPoolId": null,
"accountId": null,
"cognitoIdentityId": null,
"caller": null,
"apiKey": null,
"sourceIp": "192.168.196.186",
"cognitoAuthenticationType": null,
"cognitoAuthenticationProvider": null,
"userArn": null,
"userAgent": "PostmanRuntime/2.4.5",
"user": null
},
"resourcePath": "/{proxy+}",
"httpMethod": "POST",
"apiId": "gy415nuibc"
},
"body": "{\r\n\t\"a\": 1\r\n}",
"isBase64Encoded": false
}
}
Now you have access to all headers, url params, body etc. in each request.