Custom Lambda Authorizer Event Payload type

Question

I am trying to create a custom lambda authorizer with the lambda event payload type as "REQUEST". the serverless.yml is pretty simple

functions:
  authorizer:
    handler: src/authorizer.handler
    type: REQUEST

Whenever I deploy this yaml file it creates an authorizer with a TOKEN-based Event Payload instead of REQUEST-based.

Answer 1

The authorizer type should be set below the events section, like this:

functions:
  hello:
    handler: handler.hello
    events:
      - http: 
          path: /hello
          method: get
          authorizer:
            name: authorizer
            type: request
            
        
  authorizer:
    handler: authorizer.handler

You have instead specified the type next to "handler" on the function itself. Serverless deploys with a warning if you do this "Warning: Invalid configuration encountered at 'functions.authorizer': unrecognized property 'type'". It then defaults to "token" as type since no valid type was found.