Send email message via Pinpoint – Engineering - 5K Team

Send message via existing and configured Pinpoint project

Service limitations

There are limitations related to email channel configuration. Check this link

Lambda configuration

It should be AWS Key and Secret be passed as environment variables

PINPOINT_API_ACCESS_KEY_ID, PINPOINT_API_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

otherwise lambda IAM should be configured with

mobiletargeting:SendMessages

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/developerguide/permissions-actions.html

Implementation

import * as AWS from 'aws-sdk';

export async function handler(event: any) {
    try {
        // Configure access to Pinpoint
        const pinpoint = new AWS.Pinpoint({
            accessKeyId: process.env.PINPOINT_API_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
            secretAccessKey: process.env.PINPOINT_API_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY});

        // Configure required params that could be passed as parameters to lambda
        const appId = '<your pinpoint application Id>';
        const subject = 'Amazon Pinpoint test message';
        const body_text = `Amazon Pinpoint Test`;
        const  body_html =  '<html>' +
                            '<head></head>' +
                            '<body>' +
                            '  <h1>Amazon Pinpoint Test</h1>' +
                            '  <p>This email was sent with' +
                            `    <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/'>the Amazon Pinpoint API</a> using the`+
                            `    <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-node-js/'>`+
                            '      AWS SDK for JavaScript in Node.js</a>.</p>'+
                            '</body>'+
                            '</html>`';
        const charset = 'UTF-8';
        const toAddress = 'to Address';
        const senderAddress = 'from Address';
        const params = {
            ApplicationId: appId,
            MessageRequest: {
                Addresses: {
                    [toAddress]:{
                        ChannelType: 'EMAIL'
                    }
                },
                MessageConfiguration: {
                    EmailMessage: {
                        FromAddress: senderAddress,
                        SimpleEmail: {
                            Subject: {
                                Charset: charset,
                                Data: subject
                            },
                            HtmlPart: {
                                Charset: charset,
                                Data: body_html
                            },
                            TextPart: {
                                Charset: charset,
                                Data: body_text
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        };

        // Send request
        const result = await pinpoint.sendMessages(params).promise();
    } catch (e) {
        const errorDetails = `Unexpected exception: ${e.message} | stack: ${e.stack}`;
        console.error(errorDetails);
    }
}