From 0c6cfb370461e516662101ef68f089b5e9a8f18f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Fritz <eric.fritz@mitel.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:09:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Enable function to be created outside of StartHandler.

---
 lambda/entry.go    | 4 +---
 lambda/function.go | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lambda/entry.go b/lambda/entry.go
index f55e61aa..581d9bcf 100644
--- a/lambda/entry.go
+++ b/lambda/entry.go
@@ -53,9 +53,7 @@ func StartHandler(handler Handler) {
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	function := new(Function)
-	function.handler = handler
-	err = rpc.Register(function)
+	err = rpc.Register(NewFunction(handler))
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal("failed to register handler function")
 	}
diff --git a/lambda/function.go b/lambda/function.go
index 6a2e3373..50b6ac47 100644
--- a/lambda/function.go
+++ b/lambda/function.go
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ type Function struct {
 	handler Handler
 }
 
+func NewFunction(handler Handler) *Function {
+	return &Function{handler: handler}
+}
+
 func (fn *Function) Ping(req *messages.PingRequest, response *messages.PingResponse) error {
 	*response = messages.PingResponse{}
 	return nil