Option zip and upload only the folder contents

[dpurrington]

Right now, uploading grabs a bunch of stuff I don't need (git, PyGitHub, etc). This creates a fairly large zip file, hence, larger lambda storage.

Not being strong with Python, I'm guessing the extra stuff relates to using virtualenv. I don't need all those dependencies, and would prefer to pip install to the local directory. Could this be added as a new switch? Or is there something I'm missing and there's some other way for me to skip them?

[martinb3]

Hi @dpurrington -- I recently added the ability to use an existing virtualenv instead of building a new one on every upload using -e or --virtualenv. Does that satisfy your needs? You could build a local directory once, and just use -e <local dir> to have the uploader zip that up with the lambda function, instead of build a whole virtualenv.

[jarosser06]

@dpurrington lambda-uploader should only install and package whatever python dependencies you have specified in either a requirements.txt file or in your lambda.json file.

Could you paste your config so we can take a look?

[dpurrington]

I don't have a requirements file, and my requirements are empty have pygithub. Huh, that's copypasta. Okay,let me clear that (b/c I don't need it) and try again.

[dpurrington]

Started with a fresh lambda to test this. I deleted the requirements object:
{
"name": "uploader-test",
"description": "testing lambda-uploader",
"region": "us-east-1",
"handler": "uploader-test.lambda_handler",
"role": "xxxx",
"timeout": 3,
"memory": 128
}

The resulting zip file still has a lot of things in it:

[jarosser06]

@dpurrington Those are artifacts from the virtenv copy. @martinb3 is currently working on a flag to omit the virtualenv altogether so that should ensure that you never have anything other than your files in the package.

[dpurrington]

Roger that. Just tried what he's working on and it is pretty close to what I was looking for. It does, however, include .lambda_uploader_temp in the zip file, which isn't needed.

Thanks for the help!