Multiple ways to call azure function in Dynamics 365.

Nowadays, multiple organizations are storing their data everywhere, it is in Cloud or On-premise and it is increasing day by day with the help of internet connectivity. Organizations are asking their developers to respond with highly-scalable solutions. Solutions that often require developers to implement on-demand or scheduled batch jobs to reconcile transactions, ingest and process data, or react to events in real-time. To accomplish this huge demand we have Azure functions.

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that lets you run event-triggered code without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure.

Today we will see how to call an azure function from the below components.

1. JavaScript
2. Plugin & Custom Workflow
3. Power Automate

• JavaScript: There are many scenarios where we need to execute complex logic from the client-side code.

You can use below jquery code in your JavaScript to trigger azure function and you can also pass the expected parameter in that request.

function TriggerAzurefunction()
{
var urlPath = "https:// functioncreatemultiplecontact20200723025939.azurewebsites.net/api/CreateMultipleBookings?code=XktEMAGwdjCXKIksnSKTdFKGP/iqo9WiJMYkTMObAa07bkBcYKrjaQ==&name=testname ";

if (typeof($) === 'undefined') {
$ = parent.$;
jQuery = parent.jQuery;
}

$.ajax({

url: urlPath,

type: "GET",

dataType: "json",

async: false,

crossDomain: true,

success: function (data, textStatus, xhr) {
	
	return JSHelper.toJson(data);

},

error: function () {

}

})

.done(function (data, status, jqxhr) {

});

}

• Plugin & Custom workflow: Using webclient we can call azure function from Plugin, use below code to trigger azure function.

public void CallAzureFunction()
{
//create MemoryStream object to pass parameters
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
var jsonObject = Encoding.Default.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());

//creat web client object to call http request.
var webClient = new WebClient();

//Add required headers.
webClient.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] = "application/json";

//Azure function URL you can query parameters as below 
var serviceUrl = "https:// orderscreate.azurewebsites.net/api/Function1?code=RUydvGtO6IHRLhWjagoKUYaa0WQfJcBXq39SYSEuYbQ==&OrderNo=" + OrderNumber + "&Orderid=" + Entity.Id.ToString();

//upload the data using Post method
string response = webClient.UploadString(serviceUrl, jsonObject);
}

• Power Automate: In power automate it more easy to call azure function, it already have HTTP connector, you just need to provide function details in below properties,

1. URI: Provide azure function URL (you will get it in azure portal)

2. Headers: “code” and value, provide your azure function security code in header as shown below.

3. Queries: provide your parameters as per your requirement.

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