How to add mecab package in aws lambda?

Question

• My goal is :

  create custom api on AWS-lambda which uses mecab to analyze the data.

• Problem is:

  when i run test on aws-lambda it throws this kind of error.

  Execution result: failed(logs)
  {
    "errorMessage": "Unable to import module 'lambda_function': cannot import name '_MeCab' from 'MeCab' (/var/task/MeCab/__init__.py)",
    "errorType": "Runtime.ImportModuleError"
  } 
  

Answer 1

There is two ways to use this library :

1. Either create layer and upload library package folder there Then mapped this layer to lambda service
2. Upload library package folder inside lambda package.

How to find library package folder : https://leemendelowitz.github.io/blog/how-does-python-find-packages.html

Layer documentation : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-layers.html