#Google - Invoke Local

Invokes deployed function locally. It allows to send event data to the function, read logs and display other important information of the function invocation.

serverless invoke local -f functionName

#Options

• --function or -f The name of the function in your service that you want to invoke. Required.
• --data or -d Data you want to pass into the function
• --path or -p Path to JSON or YAML file holding input data. This path is relative to the root directory of the service.
• --raw Pass data as a raw string even if it is JSON. If not set, JSON data are parsed and passed as an object.
• --contextPath or -x, The path to a json file holding input context to be passed to the invoked function. This path is relative to the root directory of the service.
• --context or -c, String data to be passed as a context to your function. Same like with --data, context included in --contextPath will overwrite the context you passed with --context flag.
• --env or -e String representing an environment variable to set when invoking your function, in the form <name>=<value>. Can be repeated for more than one environment variable.

Keep in mind that if you pass both --path and --data, the data included in the --path file will overwrite the data you passed with the --data flag.

#Examples

#Local function invocation

serverless invoke local -f functionName

#Local function invocation with data

serverless invoke local -f functionName -d '{ "data": "hello world" }'

#Local function invocation with data passing

serverless invoke local -f functionName -p path/to/file.json

# OR

serverless invoke local -f functionName -p path/to/file.yaml

#Local function invocation, setting environment variables

serverless invoke local -f functionName -e VAR1=value1

# Or more than one variable

serverless invoke local -f functionName -e VAR1=value1 -e VAR2=value2