CreateGlobalTable

Description

The CreateGlobalTable function creates a global table from an already created table. A global table creates a replication relationship between two or more DynamoDB tables with the same table name in the provided regions.

For more information, see CreateGlobalTable.

History

ColdFusion (2021 release): Added this function.

Syntax

serviceHandle.CreateGlobalTable(requestParameters)

Parameters

See parameters of CreateGlobalTable.

Example

<cfscript> 
  // configuration for first region 
  cred = { 
    "credentialAlias" : "myalias", 
    "vendorName" : "AWS", 
    "region" : "us-east-2", 
    "secretAccessKey" : "xxxxx", 
    "accessKeyId" : "xxxx" 
  } 
  config = { 
    "serviceName" = "DYNAMODB" 
  } 
  dynamoUSEast2 = getCloudService(cred, config); 
  // configuration for second region 
 cred = { 
    "credentialAlias" : "myalias", 
    "vendorName" : "AWS", 
    "region" : "us-east-1", 
    "secretAccessKey" : "xxxxx", 
    "accessKeyId" : "xxxx" 
  } 
  config = { 
    "serviceName" = "DYNAMODB" 
  } 
  dynamoUSEast1 = cloudService(cred, config); 
 
  tableName="Movies005" 
  // create table 
  tableStruct={ 
    "TableName" : "#tableName#", 
    "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 
    }, 
    "StreamSpecification": { 
        "StreamEnabled": true,  // enable stream for replication 
        "StreamViewType": "NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES" 
    } 
  } 
  // create table in both regions 
  dynamoUSEast1.createTable(tableStruct) 
  dynamoUSEast2.createTable(tableStruct) 
 
  // cred and configuration for replication 
  cred = { 
    "credentialAlias" : "myalias", 
    "vendorName" : "AWS", 
    "region" : "us-east-2", 
    "secretAccessKey" : "xxxxx", 
    "accessKeyId" : "xxxx" 
  } 
  config = { 
    "serviceName" = "DYNAMODB" 
  } 
  dynamo = cloudService(cred, config) 
 
  // create global table 
  globalTableStruct={ 
    "GlobalTableName": "#tableName#", 
    "ReplicationGroup": [ 
      { 
         "RegionName": "us-east-2" 
      }, 
      { 
         "RegionName": "us-east-1" 
      } 
   ] 
  } 
  globalTableResponse=dynamo.CreateGlobalTable(globalTableStruct) 
  writeDump(globalTableResponse) 
</cfscript>

Output

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