Hands-On Serverless Computing

HTTP trigger

Let's look at a sample function.json binding file for the HTTP trigger for Azure Functions. In the following bindings, you can see that the type is set to httpTrigger, which means that the trigger is HTTP, and the output binding is also set to HTTP, which means the output of the function is an HTTP request:

{ "disabled": false, "bindings": [ { "authLevel": "function", "name": "req", "type": "httpTrigger", "direction": "in", "methods": [ "post" ] }, { "name": "$return", "type": "http", "direction": "out" } ] }

Let's look at how to create an HTTP Trigger using Azure Portal:

1. Select your Azure Function from the Function Apps page
2. Navigate to Integrate
3. Click on New Trigger
4. Choose HTTP

The preceding steps can be seen in the following ...