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DynamoDB Cookbook

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

DynamoDB Cookbook

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
DynamoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Putting an item into the DynamoDB table using the AWS SDK for Java


In the previous chapter, we saw how to create a table; now, let's see how to put items into a DynamoDB table.

Getting ready

To perform this operation, you can use the IDE of your choice. You should have also created a table in DynamoDB; if you haven't done this yet, refer to the previous chapters for details.

How to do it…

To get started, create a maven project, and add the AWS SDK dependency in the POM.xml. Here is the latest version of the AWS SDK for Java:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.30</version>
</dependency>

Once done, perform the following steps to put the items into the DynamoDB table:

  1. Create an instance of the DynamoDB class and initialize it with ProfileCredentialsProvider:

    DynamoDB dynamoDB = new DynamoDB(new AmazonDynamoDBClient(new ProfileCredentialsProvider()));
  2. Get the table in which you wish...