Hi, I am a newbie to serverless and this example from the documentation is very helpful: <http4k Tut...

# http4k

[Gopal S Akshintala]

Hi, I am a newbie to serverless and this example from the documentation is very helpful: http4k Tutorial: Serverless http4k with AWS Lambda
I am able to quickly deploy and understand the nuances. Thanks for this great library and documentation.
Now I am looking for an example where a db is used with AWS lambda in Http4k, are there any sample codebases which can help? Thanks!

[dave]

Hey. Not specifically any examples for this... although there should be no differences to using standard DB/cloud DB.

[Gopal S Akshintala]

Thanks @dave for the response, I am looking to build something that runs on AWS lambda. (I used the pokemon example from Jetbrains webinar) and deployed with Pulumi… Now I am unable to connect the dots (coz of my lack of experience with aws) how can I make this cloud service use a cloud db as I deploy it? (sorry if it’s too basic)

[Gopal S Akshintala]

Does this http4kbox serve as any reference?: https://github.com/daviddenton/http4kbox/tree/master/serverless

[dave]

Not really because it uses raw http and S3. You want to use the aws SDK (or maybe Http4k-connect) with something like dynamodb.

[Gopal S Akshintala]

yes right… let me dive into htt4k-connect… thanks @dave!

[Gopal S Akshintala]

Hi @dave, I see this http-connect suits my usecase: https://github.com/http4k/http4k-connect/tree/master/amazon/dynamodb
I am currently trying to connect to local DynamoDB (running on localhost:8000) and then deploy. How can I configure local endpoint with the DynamoDb client provided by http4k?

[Gopal S Akshintala]

i m guessing somthing to do with the DynamoDb.Http(environment) but couldnt get it right!

[dave]

Nope. You should wrap the http (client) handler passed into the Dynamo construction with a SetBaseHostFrom filter to set it up and redirect the traffic

[Gopal S Akshintala]

Thanks @dave , I am sorry, do u mind sending a small code snippet of what you just mentioned. Thanks

[dave]

val dynamo =
        DynamoDb.Http(
            http = SetBaseUriFrom(Uri.of("<http://localhost:8000>"))
                .then(JavaHttpClient())
        )