Webhooks should be able to invoke tasks

Feature Ideas
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What’s your idea?

Webhooks and (possibly tasks) should be able to invoke a task function.

What problem might it solve?

I have multiple tasks I need to duplicate as resolvers to do basic functionality.

For example, I have 2 tasks that adds/removes emails from my mailing list (Sendgrid). These are great as I can add a user to my “Subscribers” mailing list when they sign up via. a Trigger that already runs.

Naturally when a user cancels. their subscription I want to remove them from that mailing list so they don’t get spammed.

I use Stripe (Probably the most popular online payment system) and the way I know a customer is canceled successfully is via. their subscription.deleted webhook.

So it makes sense for me that when I receive a webhook that confirms the user has canceled I want to invoke my task that removes them from my mailing list.

After building all of this. I just get an error that ctx.invokeFunction doesn’t exist when using webhooks :frowning:

I feel like this would add a lot more re-usability of code if I could re-use task functions anywhere and not just Triggers and Resolvers.

Right now I have to duplicate my task code to a Resolver and manually make a graphQL request to the resolver to run the exact same thing as I have a task for already… :cry:

I do not want to move my task to just always be a resolver as I can re-use the task easier in my Trigger and Resolver functions.

Any ideas on how you think it could/should work?

Add the ctx.invokeFunction you already have available in Triggers and Resolvers to Webhook functions

Please!

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Hey @MarkLyck! What’s the functionName and workspaceId? It should work…

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@sebastian.scholl

Ahh yeah… It was probably just because I ran the function locally when testing it late last night and I forgot it’s not available when invoking locally.

It would be nice if nothing else to have dummy function so I could still test my functions locally before deploying to production.

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Got it! Yeah that would be good to be able to call the tasks functions locally from other functions. I’ll look into it.

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