Synchronously invokes a deployed Cloud Function. To be used for testing purposes as very limited traffic is allowed. For more information on the actual limits, refer to Rate Limits .
HTTP request
POST https://cloudfunctions.googleapis.com/v1/{name}:call
Path parameters
name
string
Required. The name of the function to be called. It takes the form projects/{project}/locations/{location}/functions/{function}
.
Authorization requires the following IAM
permission on the specified resource name
:
-
cloudfunctions.functions.call
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "data" : string } |
| Fields | |
|---|---|
data
|
Required. Input to be passed to the function. |
Response body
Response of functions.call
method.
If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "executionId" : string , "result" : string , "error" : string } |
| Fields | |
|---|---|
executionId
|
Execution id of function invocation. |
result
|
Result populated for successful execution of synchronous function. Will not be populated if function does not return a result through context. |
error
|
Either system or user-function generated error. Set if execution was not successful. |
Authorization scopes
Requires the following OAuth scope:
-
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
For more information, see the Authentication Overview .

