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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

Getting multiple items using the AWS SDK for Java


Let's understand how to get multiple items 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 get multiple stored items from the DynamoDB table using Java:

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

    AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(new ProfileCredentialsProvider());
    client.setRegion(Region.getRegion(Regions.US_EAST_1));
    DynamoDB dynamoDB = new DynamoDB(client);
  2. Create an instance of the TableKeyAndAttributes class, and add the primary key details of the items you wish to retrieve using in one go:

    TableKeysAndAttributes productKeysAndAttributes = new TableKeysAndAttributes("productTable");
    productKeysAndAttributes.addHashAndRangePrimaryKey("id", 10, "type", "phone");
    productKeysAndAttributes.addHashAndRangePrimaryKey("id", 20, "type", "phone");

    Now...