Triggering Scripts

In addition to manually triggering scripts via the UI, you can programmatically trigger scripts from another script within the same workspace.

To programmatically trigger a script, you first have to import a triggerScript function from the @sr-connect/trigger package and call that function. The first argument to this function is the name of the script you want to trigger, and the second argument is options. The options object accepts functionName and payload properties, both of which are optional.

The function name is the name of the function within the script you want to invoke; if not specified, an exported default function will be looked for. Payload accepts a JS object, which then will be passed into the function you're triggering as an event.

Here is an example:

js
import { triggerScript } from "@sr-connect/trigger";

export default async function(event: any, context: Context): Promise<void> {
	await triggerScript('ScriptName', {
		functionName: 'functionName',
		payload: {
			hello: 'world'
		}
	});
}

Use cases

String short jobs together

A useful use case of this feature is allowing jobs to run longer than 15 minutes, which is the app's limit for a single function invocation run. (This limit is a common requirement for migration workloads.) You can structure your long-running job to do a job in batches by doing as much work as possible during a single script invocation, and when time is about to run out, the script can auto-trigger and restart itself, and then continue where the previous script invocation left off. (Take a look at the Tempo Timesheets Cloud migration template to view how this functionality is applied to run a migration workload that needs to run longer than 15 minutes.)

Run parallel tasks

If you can't run the workload within the same script, consider spawning parallel tasks. However, it's worth keeping in mind that you can use Promise.all to run async tasks concurrently, but if you need to run synchronous (CPU-bound) tasks in parallel, then the only option is to spawn parallel tasks, which this feature is perfectly suited for.

Rate limits

This API call is rate-limited, meaning that if you exceed the allowed quota, the API call will get blocked, and status code 429 will be returned instead. By default @sr-connect/trigger package automatically retries rate-limited calls, which you can disable. By default, a warning message is emitted when the API call gets rate-limited, but you can disable this setting, too.

Here is an example of how you can disable automatic retry logic and warning messages while manually catching 429 errors:

js
import { triggerScript } from "@sr-connect/trigger";

export default async function (event: any, context: Context): Promise<void> {
	try {
		await triggerScript('Script', {
			retryOn429: {
				enabled: false, // Disable automatic retry
				verbose: false // Disable warning messages on automatic retries
			}
		});
	} catch (e) {
		if (e instanceof ServiceError && e.errorCode === 429) {
			// Do something when API call was rate limited
		}
	}
}