Create Bad Word Filter Service

As a bookstore owner, you aim to receive instant notifications in a Slack channel whenever a customer submits a new negative review comment. By leveraging Knative Function, you can set up a serverless function that contains a simple bad word filter service to tell whether the text contains any hateful/insulting speech.

What Knative features will we learn about?

• The easiness to use Knative Function to deploy your service, and make it be managed by Knative Serving, which gives you the ability to auto-scale your service to zero, and scale up to handle the demand.

What does the final deliverable look like?

A running serverless Knative Function that contains a python application that receives the new review comments as CloudEvent and returns the result that tells your input text contains any inappropriate languages or not. The result is sent back as CloudEvent.

Info

We are using the profanity_check library to detect the bad words in the text. It is a open source library. Please see the disclaimer here. The result may not be 100% accurate.

The function's output will be only from:

• good
• bad

Implementation

The process is straightforward:

1. Begin by utilizing the func create command to generate your code template.
2. Next, incorporate your unique code into this template.
3. Finally, execute func deploy to deploy your application seamlessly to the Kubernetes cluster.

This workflow ensures a smooth transition from development to deployment within the Knative Functions ecosystem.

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Step 1: Create a Knative Function template

func create -l python bad-word-filter

Verify

The file tree will look like this:

start/bad-word-filter
├── .funcignore
├── function
│   ├── func.py
│   └── __init__.py
├── func.yaml
├── .gitignore
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
└── tests
    └── test_func.py

Step 2: Replace the generated code with the bad word filter logic

bad-word-filter/function/func.py is the file that contains the code for the function. You can replace the generated code with the bad word filter logic. You can use the following code as a starting point:

bad-word-filter/function/func.py

import logging
from cloudevents.http import CloudEvent
from profanity_check import predict

def new():
    return Function()

class Function:
    async def handle(self, scope, receive, send):
        """ Handle all HTTP requests to this Function. The incoming CloudEvent is in scope["event"]. """
        logging.info("Request Received")

        # 1. Extract the CloudEvent from the scope
        request_event = scope["event"]

        # 2. Extract the data payload from the event, analyze and create CloudEvent
        response_event = self.inappropriate_language_filter(request_event.data)

        # 3. Send the response
        logging.info(f"Sending response: {response_event.data}")
        await send(response_event)

    def create_cloud_event(self, inputText, data):
        attributes = {
            "type": "new-review-comment",
            "source": "book-review-broker",
            "datacontenttype": "application/json",
            "badwordfilter": data,
        }

        data = {"reviewText": inputText, "badWordResult": data}

        return CloudEvent(attributes, data)

    def inappropriate_language_filter(self, text):
        review_text = text.get("reviewText", "")
        profanity_result = predict([review_text])
        result = "good"
        if profanity_result[0] == 1:
            result = "bad"

        return self.create_cloud_event(review_text, result)

Step 3: Configure the dependencies

The content of bad-word-filter/pyproject.toml:

bad-word-filter/pyproject.toml

[project]
name = "function"
description = ""
version = "0.1.0"
requires-python = ">=3.9"
readme = "README.md"
license = "MIT"
dependencies = [
    "httpx",
    "cloudevents",
    "pytest",
    "pytest-asyncio",
    "alt-profanity-check==1.4.1.post1" # <-- add this dependency
]
authors = [
    { name="Your Name", email="you@example.com"},
]

[build-system]
requires = ["hatchling"]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"

[tool.pytest.ini_options]
asyncio_mode = "strict"
asyncio_default_fixture_loop_scope = "function"

Step 4: Deploy the function to the cluster

Note

Please enter /bad-word-filter when you are executing the following commands.

func deploy -b=s2i -v

Verify

Expect to see the following message:

Function deployed in namespace "default" and exposed at URL:
http://bad-word-filter.default.svc.cluster.local

Verify

func invoke -f=cloudevent --data='{"reviewText":"I love Knative so much"}' -v

Verify

Expect to receive a CloudEvent response:

Context Attributes,
specversion: 1.0
type: new-review-comment
source: book-review-broker
id: ebbcd761-3a78-4c44-92e3-de575d1f2d38
time: 2024-05-27T04:44:07.549303Z
datacontenttype: application/json
Extensions,
badwordfilter: good
Data,
{
"reviewText": "I love Knative so much",
"badWordResult": "good"
}

If you see the response, it means that the function is running successfully.

Next Step

In this tutorial, you learned how to create a serverless function for a simple service that can detect inappropriate languages in text with Knative.

Next, we'll be learning how to use Knative Sequence to connect the 2 ML workflows and make sure they are executed in the order you want.

Go to Create Knative Sequence