JeffWScott•2d ago

/api/action returning 404

Hello, I have a convex deployment and I'm trying to send some data to my table using an action from a go program. From the docs it looks straightforwards but I was having some truouble. So I set up a simple action that just prints Hello to teh console. This action runs in the dashboard manually. When I call this function from my go code I get "HTTP error 404: This Convex deployment does not have HTTP actions enabled." I don't see anywhere to "enable HTTP actions". this is my action:

// convex/items.ts
export const testHttpActions = action({
    args: {},
    handler: async () => {
        console.log("ACTION!")
    },
});

// convex/items.ts
export const testHttpActions = action({
    args: {},
    handler: async () => {
        console.log("ACTION!")
    },
});

This is my go code code:

...
    url := "https://<removed_from_example>.convex.site/api/action"

    body := map[string]interface{}{
        "path":   "items:testHttpActions",
        "args":   "",
        "format": "json",
    }

    jsonBody, err := json.Marshal(body)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", url, bytes.NewBuffer(jsonBody))
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", fmt.Sprintf("Bearer %s", CONVEX_API_KEY))

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()
...

...
    url := "https://<removed_from_example>.convex.site/api/action"

    body := map[string]interface{}{
        "path":   "items:testHttpActions",
        "args":   "",
        "format": "json",
    }

    jsonBody, err := json.Marshal(body)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", url, bytes.NewBuffer(jsonBody))
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", fmt.Sprintf("Bearer %s", CONVEX_API_KEY))

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()
...

When I google this error or talk to AI about it I get a lot of stuff about setting up "http actions" but that's not what I want to do.
I want to do what's in this documentation: https://docs.convex.dev/http-api/#functions-api Can someone help me understand please? I thought this was going to be pretty straightforward by looking at the docs and now i'm just spinning.

Convex HTTP API | Convex Developer Hub

Connecting to Convex directly with HTTP

4 Replies

Convex Bot•2d ago

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Clever Tagline•2d ago

HTTP actions are different from normal actions. Check out the setup here: https://docs.convex.dev/functions/http-actions

HTTP Actions | Convex Developer Hub

Build HTTP APIs directly in Convex

JeffWScottOP•2d ago

right. but what is this API then? https://docs.convex.dev/http-api/

Convex HTTP API | Convex Developer Hub

Connecting to Convex directly with HTTP

JeffWScottOP•2d ago

like what is this page and code supposed to be telling me?

const url = "https://acoustic-panther-728.convex.cloud/api/query";
const request = { path: "messages:list", args: {}, format: "json" };

const response = fetch(url, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(request),
});

const url = "https://acoustic-panther-728.convex.cloud/api/query";
const request = { path: "messages:list", args: {}, format: "json" };

const response = fetch(url, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(request),
});

oh, you use .cloud and not .site and it works perfectly.

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