CreateTable

Last updated on 27 Des 2022

Description

The CreateTable function creates a table in your AWS account. In an AWS account, table names must be unique in each Region. You can have two tables with same name if you create the tables in different regions.

For more information, see CreateTable.

History

ColdFusion (2021 release): Added this function.

Syntax

serviceHandle.createTable(requestParameters)

Parameters

See request parameters of CreateTable.

Example

<cfscript> 
  cred = { 
    "credentialAlias" : "myalias", 
    "vendorName" : "AWS", 
    "region" : "us-east-2", 
    "secretAccessKey" : "xxxxx", 
    "accessKeyId" : "xxxx" 
  } 
  config = { 
    "serviceName" = "DYNAMODB" 
  } 
  dynamo = getCloudService(cred, config) 
  // create table movies 
  tableStruct={ 
    TableName : "MoviesNew", 
    KeySchema:[ 
        { AttributeName: "year", KeyType: "HASH"},  // Partition key 
        { AttributeName: "title", KeyType: "RANGE"}  // Sort key 
    ], 
    AttributeDefinitions:[ 
        { AttributeName: "year", AttributeType: "N" }, 
        { AttributeName: "title", AttributeType: "S" } 
    ], 
    ProvisionedThroughput:{ 
        ReadCapacityUnits: 10, 
        WriteCapacityUnits: 10 
    } 
 } 
  createTableResponse=dynamo.createTable(tableStruct,{"customResponse": true}) 
  writeDump(createTableResponse) 
</cfscript>