Azure Event Grid trigger for Azure Functions

The Python v2 programming model lets you define bindings using decorators directly in your Python function code. For more information, see the Python developer guide.

The Python v1 programming model requires you to define bindings in a separate function.json file in the function folder. For more information, see the Python developer guide.

When running your C# function in an isolated worker process, you need to define a custom type for event properties. The following example defines a MyEventType class.

    public class MyEventType
    {
        public string Id { get; set; }

        public string Topic { get; set; }

        public string Subject { get; set; }

        public string EventType { get; set; }

        public DateTime EventTime { get; set; }

        public IDictionary<string, object> Data { get; set; }
    }

The following example shows how the custom type is used in both the trigger and an Event Grid output binding:

    public static class EventGridFunction
    {
        [Function(nameof(EventGridFunction))]
        [EventGridOutput(TopicEndpointUri = "MyEventGridTopicUriSetting", TopicKeySetting = "MyEventGridTopicKeySetting")]
        public static MyEventType Run([EventGridTrigger] MyEventType input, FunctionContext context)
        {
            var logger = context.GetLogger(nameof(EventGridFunction));

            logger.LogInformation(input.Data.ToString());

            var outputEvent = new MyEventType()
            {
                Id = "unique-id",
                Subject = "abc-subject",
                Data = new Dictionary<string, object>
                {
                    { "myKey", "myValue" }
                }
            };

            return outputEvent;
        }
    }

The following example shows a Functions version 4.x function that uses a CloudEvent binding parameter:

using Azure.Messaging;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventGrid;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

namespace Company.Function
{
    public static class CloudEventTriggerFunction
    {
        [FunctionName("CloudEventTriggerFunction")]
        public static void Run(
            ILogger logger,
            [EventGridTrigger] CloudEvent e)
        {
            logger.LogInformation("Event received {type} {subject}", e.Type, e.Subject);
        }
    }
}

The following example shows a Functions version 4.x function that uses an EventGridEvent binding parameter:

using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs;
using Azure.Messaging.EventGrid;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventGrid;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

namespace Company.Function
{
    public static class EventGridTriggerDemo
    {
        [FunctionName("EventGridTriggerDemo")]
        public static void Run([EventGridTrigger] EventGridEvent eventGridEvent, ILogger log)
        {
            log.LogInformation(eventGridEvent.Data.ToString());
        }
    }
}

The following example shows a function that uses a JObject binding parameter:

using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventGrid;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

namespace Company.Function
{
    public static class EventGridTriggerCSharp
    {
        [FunctionName("EventGridTriggerCSharp")]
        public static void Run([EventGridTrigger] JObject eventGridEvent, ILogger log)
        {
            log.LogInformation(eventGridEvent.ToString(Formatting.Indented));
        }
    }
}

The following example shows an event grid trigger TypeScript function.

import { app, EventGridEvent, InvocationContext } from '@azure/functions';

export async function eventGridTrigger1(event: EventGridEvent, context: InvocationContext): Promise<void> {
    context.log('Event grid function processed event:', event);
}

app.eventGrid('eventGridTrigger1', {
    handler: eventGridTrigger1,
});

TypeScript samples are not documented for model v3.

The following example shows an event grid trigger JavaScript function.

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

app.eventGrid('eventGridTrigger1', {
    handler: (event, context) => {
        context.log('Event grid function processed event:', event);
    },
});

The following example shows a trigger binding in a function.json file and a JavaScript function that uses the binding.

Here's the binding data in the function.json file:

{
  "bindings": [
    {
      "type": "eventGridTrigger",
      "name": "eventGridEvent",
      "direction": "in"
    }
  ],
  "disabled": false
}

Here's the JavaScript code:

module.exports = async function (context, eventGridEvent) {
    context.log("JavaScript Event Grid function processed a request.");
    context.log("Subject: " + eventGridEvent.subject);
    context.log("Time: " + eventGridEvent.eventTime);
    context.log("Data: " + JSON.stringify(eventGridEvent.data));
};

import logging
import json
import azure.functions as func

app = func.FunctionApp()

@app.function_name(name="eventGridTrigger")
@app.event_grid_trigger(arg_name="event")
def eventGridTest(event: func.EventGridEvent):
    result = json.dumps({
        'id': event.id,
        'data': event.get_json(),
        'topic': event.topic,
        'subject': event.subject,
        'event_type': event.event_type,
    })

    logging.info('Python EventGrid trigger processed an event: %s', result)

Here's the binding data in the function.json file:

{
  "bindings": [
    {
      "type": "eventGridTrigger",
      "name": "event",
      "direction": "in"
    }
  ],
  "disabled": false,
  "scriptFile": "__init__.py"
}

Here's the Python code:

import json
import logging

import azure.functions as func

def main(event: func.EventGridEvent):

    result = json.dumps({
        'id': event.id,
        'data': event.get_json(),
        'topic': event.topic,
        'subject': event.subject,
        'event_type': event.event_type,
    })

    logging.info('Python EventGrid trigger processed an event: %s', result)

Here's an EventGridTrigger attribute in a method signature:

        [Function(nameof(EventGridFunction))]
        [EventGridOutput(TopicEndpointUri = "MyEventGridTopicUriSetting", TopicKeySetting = "MyEventGridTopicKeySetting")]
        public static MyEventType Run([EventGridTrigger] MyEventType input, FunctionContext context)
        {

Here's an EventGridTrigger attribute in a method signature:

[FunctionName("EventGridTest")]
public static void EventGridTest([EventGridTrigger] JObject eventGridEvent, ILogger log)
{

The options object passed to the app.eventGrid() method currently doesn't support any properties for model v4.

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

In-process C# class library functions supports the following types:

• Azure.Messaging.CloudEvent
• Azure.Messaging.EventGrid
• Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject
• System.String

In-process C# class library functions supports the following types:

• Microsoft.Azure.EventGrid.Models.EventGridEvent
• Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject
• System.String

In-process C# class library functions supports the following types:

• Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject
• System.String

When you want the function to process a single event, the Event Grid trigger can bind to the following types:

When you want the function to process a batch of events, the Event Grid trigger can bind to the following types:

¹ To use these types, you need to reference Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Extensions.EventGrid 3.3.0-preview1 or later and the common dependencies for SDK type bindings.

Requires you to define a custom type, or use a string. See the Example section for examples of using a custom parameter type.

Functions version 1.x doesn't support the isolated worker process.