template.yml inside folder breaks 'sam local invoke'... still

see this: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli/issues/140 Same problem with version: version 0.3.0

Uninstalled sam npm, upgraded to latest sam local with pip (python 2)

Windows 10.

sam local invoke blah --template mytemps/mytemp.yaml -e myevents/test.json
Unable to import module 'lambda_function': No module named 'lambda_function'

Works when yaml template is in the root of the folder. Do I have to use codeUri or something?

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: An AWS Serverless Specification template describing your function.
Resources:
  blah:
    Type: 'AWS::Serverless::Function'
    Properties:
      Handler: lambda_function.lambda_handler
      Runtime: python3.6
      Description: ''
      MemorySize: 128
      Timeout: 300
      Role: '......'
      Environment:
        Variables:
          sdfsdfs: sdfsdfsdf

[red8888]

Welp im dumb looks like this is working. i just needed to copy my code to a different folder and use CodeUri to point to it.

[jsheedy]

I came here with a similar problem and @red8888’s suggestion to modify CodeUri helped me solve it.

When running with the template in a subdirectory:

sam local start-api -p 9090 --host 0.0.0.0 --template project/template.yml

I got errors about my handler module not being found. When I moved template.yml to the current directory it worked as expected.

The fix was to update the path of CodeUri

from build/project.zip to ../build/project.zip

The structure is like this:

root
  project
    template.yml
  build
    project.zip

and I run the sam local command from inside the root directory.