Call Internal Functions from Backend
We're using convex in combination with a nodejs backend that handles heavier tasks. We've written a bunch of internal convex functions that we'd also like to call from the backend. Is this possible?
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Those Convex functions could be called either via an HTTP action, or via the HTTP API, whichever makes the most sense for your use case.
Just to clarify, since you specified internal functions, you'll want to use one of the methods Clever Tagline mentioned to call a public function, and use
ctx.runQuery/Mutation/Action in the public function to call the internal functions. Make sure to avoid sequential ctx.run calls.But this would still require implementing our own auth layer, right? We have RLS setup so I was trying to figure out if there was a way to directly call the "internal" actions through the official SDK & a token of some kind (i.e.
convex.mutation(internal.abc.def)) instead of just implementing our own "ADMIN" auth token and checking that, etc.The official sdk handles client to server auth, but has no prescriptions for server to server. Many use a shared secret.
That's what I do for all of our HTTP endpoints: pass a token via a
Bearer header, then compare against an environment variable, with a different variable value on dev vs prod. All HTTP endpoints use a wrapper that does the token check before running the main logic, and it works really well.