Error when launching dataflow pipeline from cloud function

Question

I'm trying to run a pipeline from a google cloud function. Unfortunately, I cannot get passed the first lines of all the examples I found.

I installed the google apis:

npm install googleapis --save

This is the code I'm trying to run for now:

const google = require('googleapis');
const dataflow = google.dataflow('v1b3');

However I get the following error:

const dataflow = google.dataflow('v1b3');
                        ^

TypeError: google.dataflow is not a function

From all the examples I've seen, this should be enough to give a dataflow client.

Answer 1

I finally made this work by changing the code to:

var {google} = require('googleapis');