Serverless Programming Cookbook

Creating the API with a CloudFormation template

Now, let's create the API by using a CloudFormation template. We will not discuss the components that were already discussed in previous recipes, nor will we discuss the theory for commands that were already discussed within the CLI commands section. The complete code is available in the code files.

With the CloudFormation template, the major change is within the Integration property of the resource type AWS::ApiGateway::Method, as follows:

Integration:  Type: AWS  IntegrationHttpMethod: POST  PassthroughBehavior: WHEN_NO_TEMPLATES  RequestTemplates:    application/json: "{ \"name\" : $input.json('$.user.name'), \"time\": $input.json('$.greeting.time') }"  IntegrationResponses:  - StatusCode: 200    ResponseTemplates ...