dyaskur / google-chat-poll

export async function createTask(payload: string, scheduleInSeconds: number) {

  const project = process.env.GCP_PROJECT;

  const queue = process.env.QUEUE_NAME;

  const location = process.env.FUNCTION_REGION;

  if (!project || !queue || !location) {

    throw new Error('Missing required environment variables');

  }

  const url = `https://${location}-${project}.cloudfunctions.net/app`;

  // Construct the fully qualified queue name.

  const parent = client.queuePath(project, location, queue);

  const task: google.cloud.tasks.v2.ITask = {

    httpRequest: {

      headers: {

        'Content-Type': 'application/json', // Set content type to ensure compatibility your application's request parsing

      }, httpMethod: 'POST', url,

    },

  };

  task.httpRequest!.body = Buffer.from(payload).toString('base64');

  // The time when the task is scheduled to be attempted.

  task.scheduleTime = {

    seconds: scheduleInSeconds / 1000,

  };

  const request: google.cloud.tasks.v2.ICreateTaskRequest = {parent: parent, task: task};

  const [response] = await client.createTask(request);

  console.log(`Created task ${response.name}`);

  return response;