Create AWS dynamoDB Tables

CLI tool to create AWS dynamoDB tables from a AWS SAM (AWS Serverless Application Model) template.yaml file. This allows to use a local dynamoDB (e.g. dynamodb-local or dynalite) for local development.

If the Table exists it will fail with ERROR: ResourceInUseException.

Quick Start

if you locally started dynamodb on port 8000:

npx sam-dynamodb-create-table -e http://localhost:8000 -f template.yaml

Install

global install

npm i -g sam-dynamodb-create-table

prefered way to use is without installation with npx!

Usage

sam-dynamodb-create-table --help

Usage: sam-dynamodb-create-table [options]

Options:
  -d, --debug                     output extra debugging information
  -c, --configuration <filename>  configuration file - format JSON
  -f, --file <filename>           sam template.yaml (default: template.yaml)
  -e, --endpoint <url>            dynamoDB endpoint url (default: http://localhost:8000)
  -r, --region <region>           AWS region (default: us-east-1)
  --config-template               output JSON config template (default: false)
  --table-name                    Table name if not provided by the template.yml or template.json
  -h, --help                      display help for command

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning.

Changes

• **2023-04-18
  • upgrade to AWS-SDK Version 3
  • add support for Cloudformation files
  • add some transformations to fix errors when deployed to a local dynamoDB server
    • fix: set ProvisionedThroughput to 1/1
    • fix: set GlobalSecondaryIndexes / ProvisionedThroughput to 1/1
    • fix: convert GlobalSecondaryIndexes.Projection from string to object

Authors

• Andreas Heissenberger - Initial work - Github | Heissenberger Laboratory

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details