Azure Database for MySQL output binding for Azure Functions

  • 05/28/2025
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You can use the Azure Database for MySQL output binding to write to a database.

For information on setup and configuration, see the overview.

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Examples

A C# function can be created by using one of the following C# modes:

  • In-process class library: Compiled C# function that runs in the same process as the Functions runtime.
  • Isolated worker process class library: Compiled C# function that runs in a worker process that's isolated from the runtime. Isolated worker process is required to support C# functions running on LTS and non-LTS versions .NET and the .NET Framework.
  • C# script: Used primarily when you create C# functions in the Azure portal.

Important

Support will end for the in-process model on November 10, 2026. We highly recommend that you migrate your apps to the isolated worker model for full support.

More samples for the Azure Database for MySQL output binding are available in the GitHub repository.

This section contains the following example:

The example refers to a Product class and a corresponding database table:

namespace AzureMySqlSamples.Common
{
    public class Product
    {
        public int? ProductId { get; set; }

        public string Name { get; set; }

        public int Cost { get; set; }

        public override bool Equals(object obj)
    }
}

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Products;

CREATE TABLE Products (
  ProductId int PRIMARY KEY,
  Name varchar(100) NULL,
  Cost int NULL
);

HTTP trigger, write one record

The following example shows a C# function that adds a record to a database, by using data provided in an HTTP POST request as a JSON body.

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker;
using Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.MySql;
using Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Http;
using AzureMySqlSamples.Common;

namespace AzureMySqlSamples.OutputBindingSamples
{
    public static class AddProduct
    {
        [FunctionName(nameof(AddProduct))]
        public static IActionResult Run(
            [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "post", Route = "addproduct")]
            [FromBody] Product prod,
            [MySql("Products", "MySqlConnectionString")] out Product product)
        {
            product = prod;
            return new CreatedResult($"/api/addproduct", product);
        }
    }
}

More samples for the Azure Database for MySQL output binding are available in the GitHub repository.

This section contains the following example:

The example refers to a Product class and a corresponding database table:

package com.function.Common;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;

public class Product {
    @JsonProperty("ProductId")
    private int ProductId;
    @JsonProperty("Name")
    private String Name;
    @JsonProperty("Cost")
    private int Cost;

    public Product() {
    }

    public Product(int productId, String name, int cost) {
        ProductId = productId;
        Name = name;
        Cost = cost;
    }
}

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Products;

CREATE TABLE Products (
  ProductId int PRIMARY KEY,
  Name varchar(100) NULL,
  Cost int NULL
);

HTTP trigger, write a record to a table

The following example shows an Azure Database for MySQL output binding in a Java function that adds a record to a table, by using data provided in an HTTP POST request as a JSON body. The function takes an additional dependency on the com.google.code.gson library to parse the JSON body.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
    <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
    <version>2.10.1</version>
</dependency>

package com.function;

import com.microsoft.azure.functions.HttpMethod;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.HttpRequestMessage;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.HttpResponseMessage;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.HttpStatus;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.OutputBinding;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.annotation.AuthorizationLevel;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.annotation.FunctionName;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.annotation.HttpTrigger;
import com.microsoft.azure.functions.mysql.annotation.MySqlOutput;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.function.Common.Product;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Optional;

public class AddProduct {
    @FunctionName("AddProduct")
    public HttpResponseMessage run(
            @HttpTrigger(
                name = "req",
                methods = {HttpMethod.POST},
                authLevel = AuthorizationLevel.ANONYMOUS,
                route = "addproduct")
                HttpRequestMessage<Optional<String>> request,
            @MySqlOutput(
                name = "product",
                commandText = "Products",
                connectionStringSetting = "MySqlConnectionString")
                OutputBinding<Product> product) throws JsonParseException, JsonMappingException, IOException {

        String json = request.getBody().get();
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        Product p = mapper.readValue(json, Product.class);
        product.setValue(p);

        return request.createResponseBuilder(HttpStatus.OK).header("Content-Type", "application/json").body(product).build();
    }
}

More samples for the Azure Database for MySQL output binding are available in the GitHub repository.

This section contains the following example:

The example refers to a database table:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Products;

CREATE TABLE Products (
  ProductId int PRIMARY KEY,
  Name varchar(100) NULL,
  Cost int NULL
);

HTTP trigger, write records to a table

The following example shows an Azure Database for MySQL output binding that adds records to a table, by using data provided in an HTTP POST request as a JSON body.

const { app, output } = require('@azure/functions');

const mysqlOutput = output.generic({
    type: 'mysql',
    commandText: 'Products',
    connectionStringSetting: 'MySqlConnectionString'
})

// Upsert the product, which will insert it into the Products table if the primary key (ProductId) for that item doesn't exist.
// If it does, update it to have the new name and cost.
app.http('AddProduct', {
    methods: ['POST'],
    authLevel: 'anonymous',
    extraOutputs: [mysqlOutput],
    handler: async (request, context) => {
        // Note that this expects the body to be a JSON object or array of objects that have a property
        // matching each of the columns in the table to upsert to.
        const product = await request.json();
        context.extraOutputs.set(mysqlOutput, product);

        return {
            status: 201,
            body: JSON.stringify(product)
        };
    }
});

const { app, output } = require('@azure/functions');

const mysqlOutput = output.generic({
    type: 'mysql',
    commandText: 'Products',
    connectionStringSetting: 'MySqlConnectionString'
})

// Upsert the product, which will insert it into the Products table if the primary key (ProductId) for that item doesn't exist.
// If it does, update it to have the new name and cost.
app.http('AddProduct', {
    methods: ['POST'],
    authLevel: 'anonymous',
    extraOutputs: [mysqlOutput],
    handler: async (request, context) => {
        // Note that this expects the body to be a JSON object or array of objects that have a property
        // matching each of the columns in the table to upsert to.
        const product = await request.json();
        context.extraOutputs.set(mysqlOutput, product);

        return {
            status: 201,
            body: JSON.stringify(product)
        };
    }
});

More samples for the Azure Database for MySQL output binding are available in the GitHub repository.

This section contains the following example:

The example refers to a database table:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Products;

CREATE TABLE Products (
  ProductId int PRIMARY KEY,
  Name varchar(100) NULL,
  Cost int NULL
);

HTTP trigger, write records to a table

The following example shows an Azure Database for MySQL output binding in a function.json file and a PowerShell function that adds records to a table, by using data provided in an HTTP POST request as a JSON body.

The following example is binding data in the function.json file:

{
  "bindings": [
    {
      "authLevel": "function",
      "name": "Request",
      "direction": "in",
      "type": "httpTrigger",
      "methods": [
        "post"
      ],
      "route": "addproduct"
    },
    {
      "name": "response",
      "type": "http",
      "direction": "out"
    },
    {
      "name": "product",
      "type": "mysql",
      "direction": "out",
      "commandText": "Products",
      "connectionStringSetting": "MySqlConnectionString"
    }
  ],
  "disabled": false
}

The Configuration section explains these properties.

The following example is sample PowerShell code for the function in the run.ps1 file:

using namespace System.Net

# Trigger binding data passed in via parameter block.
param($Request, $TriggerMetadata)

# Write to the Azure Functions log stream.
Write-Host "PowerShell function with MySql Output Binding processed a request."

# Note that this expects the body to be a JSON object or array of objects 
# that have a property matching each of the columns in the table to upsert to.
$req_body = $Request.Body

# Assign the value that you want to pass to the MySQL output binding. 
# The -Name value corresponds to the name property in the function.json file for the binding.
Push-OutputBinding -Name product -Value $req_body

# Assign the value to return as the HTTP response. 
# The -Name value matches the name property in the function.json file for the binding.
Push-OutputBinding -Name response -Value ([HttpResponseContext]@{
    StatusCode = [HttpStatusCode]::OK
    Body = $req_body
})

More samples for the Azure Database for MySQL output binding are available in the GitHub repository.

This section contains the following example:

The example refers to a database table:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Products;

CREATE TABLE Products (
  ProductId int PRIMARY KEY,
  Name varchar(100) NULL,
  Cost int NULL
);

Note

You must use Azure Functions version 1.22.0b4 for Python.

HTTP trigger, write records to a table

The following example shows an Azure Database for MySQL output binding in a function.json file and a Python function that adds records to a table, by using data provided in an HTTP POST request as a JSON body.

The following example is sample Python code for the function_app.py file:

import json 

import azure.functions as func

app = func.FunctionApp(http_auth_level=func.AuthLevel.ANONYMOUS)
@app.generic_trigger(arg_name="req", type="httpTrigger", route="addproduct")
@app.generic_output_binding(arg_name="$return", type="http")
@app.generic_output_binding(arg_name="r", type="mysql",
                            command_text="Products",
                            connection_string_setting="MySqlConnectionString")
def mysql_output(req: func.HttpRequest, r: func.Out[func.MySqlRow]) \
        -> func.HttpResponse:
    body = json.loads(req.get_body())
    row = func.MySqlRow.from_dict(body)
    r.set(row)

    return func.HttpResponse(
        body=req.get_body(),
        status_code=201,
        mimetype="application/json"
    )

Attributes

The C# library uses the MySqlAttribute attribute to declare the MySQL bindings on the function, which has the following properties:

Attribute property Description
CommandText Required. The name of the table that the binding writes to.
ConnectionStringSetting Required. The name of an app setting that contains the connection string for the database to which data is written. This value isn't the actual connection string and must instead resolve to an environment variable.

Annotations

In the Java functions runtime library, use the @MySQLOutput annotation on parameters whose value would come from Azure Database for MySQL. This annotation supports the following elements:

Element Description
commandText Required. The name of the table that the binding writes to.
connectionStringSetting Required. The name of an app setting that contains the connection string for the database to which data is written. This value isn't the actual connection string and must instead resolve to an environment variable.
name Required. The unique name of the function binding.

Configuration

The following table explains the properties that you can set on the options object passed to the output.generic() method:

Property Description
commandText Required. The name of the table that the binding writes to.
connectionStringSetting Required. The name of an app setting that contains the connection string for the database to which data is written. This value isn't the actual connection string and must instead resolve to an environment variable.

Configuration

The following table explains the binding configuration properties that you set in the function.json file:

Property Description
type Required. Must be set to Mysql.
direction Required. Must be set to out.
name Required. The name of the variable that represents the entity in function code.
commandText Required. The name of the table that the binding writes to.
connectionStringSetting Required. The name of an app setting that contains the connection string for the database to which data is written. This value isn't the actual connection string and must instead resolve to an environment variable.

When you're developing locally, add your application settings in the local.settings.json file in the Values collection.

Note

The output binding supports all special characters, including dollar sign ($), backtick (`), hyphen (-), and underscore (_). For more information, see the MySQL community documentation.

A programming language might define member attributes that contain special characters that it supports. For example, C# has a few limitations for defining variables.

Otherwise, you can use JObject for the output binding that covers all special characters. You can follow a detailed example on GitHub.

Usage

The CommandText property is the name of the table where the data is stored. The name of the connection string setting corresponds to the application setting that contains the connection string to Azure Database for MySQL.

If an exception occurs when a MySQL input binding is executed, the function code won't run. The result might be an error code, such as an HTTP trigger that returns a 500 error code.

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