Amazon DynamoDB - Get item
Declaration
<AMAWSDYNAMODB ACTIVITY="get_item" PROVIDER="session_based" SESSION="text" ACCESSKEY="text" SECRETKEY="text (encrypted)" USERAGENT="text" MAXERRORRETRY="number" SERVICEURL="text" PROXYHOST="text" PROXYPORT="number" PROXYUSER="text" PROXYPWD="text (encrypted)" SIGNMETHOD="text" SIGNVERSION="number" TABLE="text" HASH="text" HASHTYPE="text (options)" RANGE="text" RANGETYPE="text (options)" RESULTDATSET="text" />
Description
Retrieves a set of attributes for an item that matches the supplied key and populates a dataset with results.
Practical usage
Used to retrieve information about a specific table item.
Parameters
Connection
Property | Type | Required | Default | Markup | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Connection | --- | --- | --- | --- | Indicates where user
credentials and preferences should originate from. This is a design
mode parameter used only during task construction and configuration,
thus, comprises no markup. The available options are:
|
Session | Text | Yes, if the connection is set to Session | DynamoDBSession1 | SESSION="myDynamoDBsession" | The name of an existing session to associate with this activity. This parameter becomes active and is required if the Connection parameter is set to Session. |
Access key | Text | Yes, if the connection is set to Host | (Empty) | ACCESSKEY="[accessKey]" | The ID that uniquely identifies the owner of the AWS service account (similar to a username). Together, the Access Key and Secret Access Key are the main credentials used to access and control basic AWS services through the API. This parameter is active only if the Connection parameter is set to Host. |
Secret access key | Text | Yes, if the connection is set to Host | (Empty) | SECRETKEY="[SecretKey]" | The secret ID that corresponds with the Access Key (similar to a password). When a request is sent, AWS verifies that this key corresponds with the Access Key in order to authenticate the signature and confirm that the request sender is legitimate. This parameter is active only if the Connection parameter is set to Host. |
User agent | Text | No | Automate | USERAGENT="Automate" | The name of the client or application initiating requests to AWS. The default value is Automate. |
Maximum number retries on error | Number | No | (Empty) | MAXERRORRETRY="7" | The amount of times this activity should retry sending the request to the server before returning an error. Network components can generate errors anywhere in the life of a given request, therefore, implementing retries can increase reliability. |
Service URL | Text | No | (Empty) | SERVICEURL="https://sdb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com" | The URL that provides the service region endpoint. To make the service call to a different region, simply specify the region-specific endpoint. For example, entering https://dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com would point to US East (Northern Virginia) region. A complete list of DynamoDB regions and their associated endpoints can be found below under DynamoDB regions and endpoints. |
Proxy host | Text | No | (Empty) | PROXYHOST="proxy.host.com" | The hostname (for example, server.domain.com) or IP address (for example, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) of the proxy server to use when connecting to AWS. |
Proxy port | Number | No | (Empty) | PROXYPORT="1028" | The port number to use to connect to the proxy server. |
Proxy username | Text | No | (Empty) | PROXYUSERNAME="Username" | The username to authenticate with the proxy server. |
Proxy password | Text | No | (Empty) | PROXYPWD="encrypted" | The password to authenticate with the proxy server. |
Signature method | Text | No | (Empty) | SIGNMETHOD="HmacSHA256" | The signature method to use for signing the request. This provides a valid hashing algorithm for signature calculation. Valid AWS signature methods are HmacSHA1 and HmacSHA256. |
Signature version | Number | No | (Empty) | SIGNVERSION="2" | The signature version for signing the request. Valid AWS signature versions are 2 and 4. The difference with version 4 is that it allows you to sign your message using a key that is derived from your secret access key rather than using the secret access key itself. |
Item
Property | Type | Required | Default | Markup | Description |
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Table | Text | Yes | (Empty) | TABLE="myTable" | The name of the table that contains the item to retrieve information about. |
Hash key | Text | Yes | (Empty) | HASH="theHash" | The hash key of the item to get. |
Hash type (unlabeled) | Text (options) | No | String | HASHTYPE="string" | The hash key type.
The available options are:
|
Range key (optional) | Text | No | (Empty) | RANGE="theRange" | The range key of the item to get. |
Range type (unlabeled) | Text (options) | No | String | HASHTYPE="string" | The range key type.
The available options are:
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Create and populate dataset with table information | Text (options) | Yes | (Empty) | RESULTDATASET="mydata" | The name of the dataset to create and populate with information about item. For more details, see Datasets below. |
Additional notes
DynamoDB regions and endpoints
This table contains a complete list of DynamoDB endpoints, associated regions and supported protocols.
Endpoint | Region | Protocol |
---|---|---|
elasticmapreduce.us-east-1.amazonaws.com | US East (Northern Virginia) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
elasticmapreduce.us-west-2.amazonaws.com | US West (Oregon) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
elasticmapreduce.us-west-1.amazonaws.com | US West (Northern California) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
elasticmapreduce.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com | EU (Ireland) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
elasticmapreduce.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com | Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
elasticmapreduce.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com | Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
elasticmapreduce.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com | Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
elasticmapreduce.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com | South America (Sao Paulo) Region | HTTP and HTTPS |
Datasets
A dataset is a multi-column, multi-row object that contains a collection of information gathered during runtime and stored in memory. Each attribute in an item is a name-value pair. An attribute can be single-valued or multi-valued set. For example, a book item can have title and authors attributes. Each book has one title but can have many authors. The table below displays a general layout of the dataset that this activity creates and populates.
Name | Type | Return Value |
---|---|---|
theDataset.Attribute1[Name] | Text/Number | Attribute value |
theDataset.Attribute2[Name] | Text/Number | Attribute value |
theDataset.Attribute3[Name] | Text/Number | Attribute value |
theDataset.Attribute4[Name] | Text/Number | Attribute value |
Example
- Copy and paste the sample AML code below directly into the Task Builder Steps Panel.
- To successfully run the sample code, update parameters containing user credentials, files, file paths, or other information specific to the task to match your environment.
Description
This sample task gets an item from a table.
<AMAWSDYNAMODB ACTIVITY="get_item" ACCESSKEY="AKIAJ25JAKOPAC7GSQ7A" SECRETKEY="AM3i6P77pVEBOw=aME" TABLE="games" HASH="soccer" RANGE="2" RANGETYPE="number" RESULTDATSET="theDataset" />