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I have a cloud function which is doing a synchronous pull from a pubsub subscription. the request is configured using the returnImmediately flag set to true so that we do not wait for pubsub messages to be present in the queue.



const request = {
subscription: formattedName,
maxMessages: maxMessages,
returnImmediately: true,
};
...
client.pull(request)
...


When there are some messages pending, the request returns very fast ( 100ms ) but when there is no messages in the queue, the call hangs for about 1.5 second before returning the empty array of messages.



as I am in a cloud function, I am not sure asynchronous pull is possible.



how could I get rid of this 1.5 s delay and get the pull(request) returns immediately when there is no pending messages ? it would feel very natural that a synchronous pull() with returnImmediately set to true, returns immediately










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  • Synchronous pubusb pull in Cloud Functions is not a good idea for many reasons. Instead, you should write a pubsub trigger to arrange for your code to run on each message. cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/pubsub
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 19 at 21:21















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I have a cloud function which is doing a synchronous pull from a pubsub subscription. the request is configured using the returnImmediately flag set to true so that we do not wait for pubsub messages to be present in the queue.



const request = {
subscription: formattedName,
maxMessages: maxMessages,
returnImmediately: true,
};
...
client.pull(request)
...


When there are some messages pending, the request returns very fast ( 100ms ) but when there is no messages in the queue, the call hangs for about 1.5 second before returning the empty array of messages.



as I am in a cloud function, I am not sure asynchronous pull is possible.



how could I get rid of this 1.5 s delay and get the pull(request) returns immediately when there is no pending messages ? it would feel very natural that a synchronous pull() with returnImmediately set to true, returns immediately










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  • Synchronous pubusb pull in Cloud Functions is not a good idea for many reasons. Instead, you should write a pubsub trigger to arrange for your code to run on each message. cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/pubsub
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 19 at 21:21













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I have a cloud function which is doing a synchronous pull from a pubsub subscription. the request is configured using the returnImmediately flag set to true so that we do not wait for pubsub messages to be present in the queue.



const request = {
subscription: formattedName,
maxMessages: maxMessages,
returnImmediately: true,
};
...
client.pull(request)
...


When there are some messages pending, the request returns very fast ( 100ms ) but when there is no messages in the queue, the call hangs for about 1.5 second before returning the empty array of messages.



as I am in a cloud function, I am not sure asynchronous pull is possible.



how could I get rid of this 1.5 s delay and get the pull(request) returns immediately when there is no pending messages ? it would feel very natural that a synchronous pull() with returnImmediately set to true, returns immediately










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I have a cloud function which is doing a synchronous pull from a pubsub subscription. the request is configured using the returnImmediately flag set to true so that we do not wait for pubsub messages to be present in the queue.



const request = {
subscription: formattedName,
maxMessages: maxMessages,
returnImmediately: true,
};
...
client.pull(request)
...


When there are some messages pending, the request returns very fast ( 100ms ) but when there is no messages in the queue, the call hangs for about 1.5 second before returning the empty array of messages.



as I am in a cloud function, I am not sure asynchronous pull is possible.



how could I get rid of this 1.5 s delay and get the pull(request) returns immediately when there is no pending messages ? it would feel very natural that a synchronous pull() with returnImmediately set to true, returns immediately







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  • Synchronous pubusb pull in Cloud Functions is not a good idea for many reasons. Instead, you should write a pubsub trigger to arrange for your code to run on each message. cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/pubsub
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 19 at 21:21


















  • Synchronous pubusb pull in Cloud Functions is not a good idea for many reasons. Instead, you should write a pubsub trigger to arrange for your code to run on each message. cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/pubsub
    – Doug Stevenson
    Nov 19 at 21:21
















Synchronous pubusb pull in Cloud Functions is not a good idea for many reasons. Instead, you should write a pubsub trigger to arrange for your code to run on each message. cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/pubsub
– Doug Stevenson
Nov 19 at 21:21




Synchronous pubusb pull in Cloud Functions is not a good idea for many reasons. Instead, you should write a pubsub trigger to arrange for your code to run on each message. cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/pubsub
– Doug Stevenson
Nov 19 at 21:21












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As @DougStevenson pointed, you should write a Cloud Function to be triggered when there is a new message published in your topic, you can follow this tutorial, then you'll have a very fast response without any delay.






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