Azure Functions and ServiceBus gotcha

Okay, so this might not be a gotcha, but I lost an hour early this morning trying to diagnose a problem with an Azure Function I’m writing. I’m using ServiceBus triggers and outputs to form a processing pipeline using the functions. One function reads the messages on a queue and then puts another message on a queue for another function to handle.

I was getting this non descriptive error when running locally.

After much experimentation I realised that the ServiceBus queue in the function.json must actually exist 🙂 For some reason I assumed the host would create them as required! Anyway.

Might be of use to somebody else.