How do you structure sequential AWS service calls within lambda given all the calls are asynchronous?

Question

I\'m coming from a java background so a bit of a newbie on Javascript conventions needed for Lambda.

I\'ve got a lambda function which is meant to do several AWS tasks i

Answer 1

By default Javascript is asynchronous.

So, everything that you have to do, it's not to use those libraries, you can, but there's simple ways to solve this. In this code, I sent the email, with the data that comes from the event, but if you want, you just need to add more functions inside functions.

What is important is the place where your context.done(); is going to be, he is going to end your Lambda function. You need to put him in the end of the last function.

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');    
AWS.config.credentials = { "accessKeyId": "AAAA","secretAccessKey": "BBBB"};
AWS.config.region = 'us-east-1';
var ses = new AWS.SES({apiVersion: '2010-12-01'});

exports.handler = function(event, context) {

    console.log(event.nome);
    console.log(event.email);
    console.log(event.mensagem);

    nome = event.nome;
    email = event.email;
    mensagem = event.mensagem;

    var to = ['email@company.com.br'];
    var from = 'site@company.com.br';

    // Send email
    mensagem = ""+nome+"||"+email+"||"+mensagem+"";

    console.log(mensagem);
    ses.sendEmail( { 
       Source: from, 
       Destination: { ToAddresses: to },
       Message: {
           Subject: {
              Data: 'Form contact our Site'
           },
           Body: {
               Text: {
                   Data: mensagem,
               }
            }
       }
    },
    function(err, data) {
        if (err) {
            console.log("ERROR="+err, err.stack); 
            context.done();
          } else {
            console.log("EMAIL SENT="+data);
            context.done();
          }
     });
}