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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

Updating an item in the DynamoDB table using the AWS SDK for Java


Let's understand how to update an item from the DynamoDB table using the AWS SDK for Java.

Getting ready

To perform this operation, you can use the IDE of your choice.

How to do it…

Let's try to understand how to update a stored item in the DynamoDB table using Java. The update request allows us to add a new attribute to the item, update the value of an attribute, or remove an attribute from the item:

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

    AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(new ProfileCredentialsProvider());
    client.setRegion(Region.getRegion(Regions.US_EAST_1));
    DynamoDB dynamoDB = new DynamoDB(client);
  2. Get the table by specifying the name:

    Table table = dynamoDB.getTable("productTable");
  3. Create a map of ExpressionAttributeValues in which you need to specify the attributes that you wish to update:

    Map<String, String> expressionAttributeNames = new HashMap<String, String...