Amazon SimpleDB

2014/10/16 - Amazon SimpleDB - 10 new api methods

DeleteAttributes (new) Link ¶

Deletes one or more attributes associated with an item. If all attributes of the item are deleted, the item is deleted.

Note

If DeleteAttributes is called without being passed any attributes or values specified, all the attributes for the item are deleted.

DeleteAttributes is an idempotent operation; running it multiple times on the same item or attribute does not result in an error response.

Because Amazon SimpleDB makes multiple copies of item data and uses an eventual consistency update model, performing a GetAttributes or Select operation (read) immediately after a DeleteAttributes or PutAttributes operation (write) might not return updated item data.

Request Syntax

client.delete_attributes(
    DomainName='string',
    ItemName='string',
    Attributes=[
        {
            'Name': 'string',
            'Value': 'string'
        },
    ],
    Expected={
        'Name': 'string',
        'Value': 'string',
        'Exists': True|False
    }
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain in which to perform the operation.

type ItemName

string

param ItemName

[REQUIRED] The name of the item. Similar to rows on a spreadsheet, items represent individual objects that contain one or more value-attribute pairs.

type Attributes

list

param Attributes

A list of Attributes. Similar to columns on a spreadsheet, attributes represent categories of data that can be assigned to items.

  • (dict) --

    • Name (string) -- [REQUIRED] The name of the attribute.

    • Value (string) -- The value of the attribute.

type Expected

dict

param Expected

The update condition which, if specified, determines whether the specified attributes will be deleted or not. The update condition must be satisfied in order for this request to be processed and the attributes to be deleted.

  • Name (string) --

    The name of the attribute involved in the condition.

  • Value (string) --

    The value of an attribute. This value can only be specified when the Exists parameter is equal to true .

  • Exists (boolean) --

    A value specifying whether or not the specified attribute must exist with the specified value in order for the update condition to be satisfied. Specify true if the attribute must exist for the update condition to be satisfied. Specify false if the attribute should not exist in order for the update condition to be satisfied.

returns

None

BatchDeleteAttributes (new) Link ¶

Performs multiple DeleteAttributes operations in a single call, which reduces round trips and latencies. This enables Amazon SimpleDB to optimize requests, which generally yields better throughput.

Note

If you specify BatchDeleteAttributes without attributes or values, all the attributes for the item are deleted.

BatchDeleteAttributes is an idempotent operation; running it multiple times on the same item or attribute doesn't result in an error.

The BatchDeleteAttributes operation succeeds or fails in its entirety. There are no partial deletes. You can execute multiple BatchDeleteAttributes operations and other operations in parallel. However, large numbers of concurrent BatchDeleteAttributes calls can result in Service Unavailable (503) responses.

This operation is vulnerable to exceeding the maximum URL size when making a REST request using the HTTP GET method.

This operation does not support conditions using Expected.X.Name, Expected.X.Value, or Expected.X.Exists.

The following limitations are enforced for this operation:

  • 1 MB request size

  • 25 item limit per BatchDeleteAttributes operation

Request Syntax

client.batch_delete_attributes(
    DomainName='string',
    Items=[
        {
            'Name': 'string',
            'Attributes': [
                {
                    'Name': 'string',
                    'Value': 'string'
                },
            ]
        },
    ]
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain in which the attributes are being deleted.

type Items

list

param Items

[REQUIRED] A list of items on which to perform the operation.

  • (dict) --

    • Name (string) -- [REQUIRED]

    • Attributes (list) --

      • (dict) --

        • Name (string) -- [REQUIRED] The name of the attribute.

        • Value (string) -- The value of the attribute.

returns

None

ListDomains (new) Link ¶

The ListDomains operation lists all domains associated with the Access Key ID. It returns domain names up to the limit set by MaxNumberOfDomains. A NextToken is returned if there are more than MaxNumberOfDomains domains. Calling ListDomains successive times with the NextToken provided by the operation returns up to MaxNumberOfDomains more domain names with each successive operation call.

Request Syntax

client.list_domains(
    MaxNumberOfDomains=123,
    NextToken='string'
)
type MaxNumberOfDomains

integer

param MaxNumberOfDomains

The maximum number of domain names you want returned. The range is 1 to 100. The default setting is 100.

type NextToken

string

param NextToken

A string informing Amazon SimpleDB where to start the next list of domain names.

rtype

dict

returns

Response Syntax

{
    'DomainNames': [
        'string',
    ],
    'NextToken': 'string'
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) --

    • DomainNames (list) -- A list of domain names that match the expression.

      • (string) --

    • NextToken (string) -- An opaque token indicating that there are more domains than the specified MaxNumberOfDomains still available.

GetAttributes (new) Link ¶

Returns all of the attributes associated with the specified item. Optionally, the attributes returned can be limited to one or more attributes by specifying an attribute name parameter.

If the item does not exist on the replica that was accessed for this operation, an empty set is returned. The system does not return an error as it cannot guarantee the item does not exist on other replicas.

Note

If GetAttributes is called without being passed any attribute names, all the attributes for the item are returned.

Request Syntax

client.get_attributes(
    DomainName='string',
    ItemName='string',
    AttributeNames=[
        'string',
    ],
    ConsistentRead=True|False
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain in which to perform the operation.

type ItemName

string

param ItemName

[REQUIRED] The name of the item.

type AttributeNames

list

param AttributeNames

The names of the attributes.

  • (string) --

type ConsistentRead

boolean

param ConsistentRead

Determines whether or not strong consistency should be enforced when data is read from SimpleDB. If true , any data previously written to SimpleDB will be returned. Otherwise, results will be consistent eventually, and the client may not see data that was written immediately before your read.

rtype

dict

returns

Response Syntax

{
    'Attributes': [
        {
            'Name': 'string',
            'AlternateNameEncoding': 'string',
            'Value': 'string',
            'AlternateValueEncoding': 'string'
        },
    ]
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) --

    • Attributes (list) -- The list of attributes returned by the operation.

      • (dict) --

        • Name (string) -- The name of the attribute.

        • AlternateNameEncoding (string) --

        • Value (string) -- The value of the attribute.

        • AlternateValueEncoding (string) --

DomainMetadata (new) Link ¶

Returns information about the domain, including when the domain was created, the number of items and attributes in the domain, and the size of the attribute names and values.

Request Syntax

client.domain_metadata(
    DomainName='string'
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain for which to display the metadata of.

rtype

dict

returns

Response Syntax

{
    'ItemCount': 123,
    'ItemNamesSizeBytes': 123,
    'AttributeNameCount': 123,
    'AttributeNamesSizeBytes': 123,
    'AttributeValueCount': 123,
    'AttributeValuesSizeBytes': 123,
    'Timestamp': 123
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) --

    • ItemCount (integer) -- The number of all items in the domain.

    • ItemNamesSizeBytes (integer) -- The total size of all item names in the domain, in bytes.

    • AttributeNameCount (integer) -- The number of unique attribute names in the domain.

    • AttributeNamesSizeBytes (integer) -- The total size of all unique attribute names in the domain, in bytes.

    • AttributeValueCount (integer) -- The number of all attribute name/value pairs in the domain.

    • AttributeValuesSizeBytes (integer) -- The total size of all attribute values in the domain, in bytes.

    • Timestamp (integer) -- The data and time when metadata was calculated, in Epoch (UNIX) seconds.

BatchPutAttributes (new) Link ¶

The BatchPutAttributes operation creates or replaces attributes within one or more items. By using this operation, the client can perform multiple PutAttribute operation with a single call. This helps yield savings in round trips and latencies, enabling Amazon SimpleDB to optimize requests and generally produce better throughput.

The client may specify the item name with the Item.X.ItemName parameter. The client may specify new attributes using a combination of the Item.X.Attribute.Y.Name and Item.X.Attribute.Y.Value parameters. The client may specify the first attribute for the first item using the parameters Item.0.Attribute.0.Name and Item.0.Attribute.0.Value , and for the second attribute for the first item by the parameters Item.0.Attribute.1.Name and Item.0.Attribute.1.Value , and so on.

Attributes are uniquely identified within an item by their name/value combination. For example, a single item can have the attributes { "first_name", "first_value" } and { "first_name", "second_value" } . However, it cannot have two attribute instances where both the Item.X.Attribute.Y.Name and Item.X.Attribute.Y.Value are the same.

Optionally, the requester can supply the Replace parameter for each individual value. Setting this value to true will cause the new attribute values to replace the existing attribute values. For example, if an item I has the attributes { 'a', '1' }, { 'b', '2'} and { 'b', '3' } and the requester does a BatchPutAttributes of {'I', 'b', '4' } with the Replace parameter set to true, the final attributes of the item will be { 'a', '1' } and { 'b', '4' } , replacing the previous values of the 'b' attribute with the new value.

Note

You cannot specify an empty string as an item or as an attribute name. The BatchPutAttributes operation succeeds or fails in its entirety. There are no partial puts.

Warning

This operation is vulnerable to exceeding the maximum URL size when making a REST request using the HTTP GET method. This operation does not support conditions using Expected.X.Name , Expected.X.Value , or Expected.X.Exists .

You can execute multiple BatchPutAttributes operations and other operations in parallel. However, large numbers of concurrent BatchPutAttributes calls can result in Service Unavailable (503) responses.

The following limitations are enforced for this operation:

  • 256 attribute name-value pairs per item

  • 1 MB request size

  • 1 billion attributes per domain

  • 10 GB of total user data storage per domain

  • 25 item limit per BatchPutAttributes operation

Request Syntax

client.batch_put_attributes(
    DomainName='string',
    Items=[
        {
            'Name': 'string',
            'Attributes': [
                {
                    'Name': 'string',
                    'Value': 'string',
                    'Replace': True|False
                },
            ]
        },
    ]
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain in which the attributes are being stored.

type Items

list

param Items

[REQUIRED] A list of items on which to perform the operation.

  • (dict) --

    • Name (string) -- [REQUIRED] The name of the replaceable item.

    • Attributes (list) -- [REQUIRED] The list of attributes for a replaceable item.

      • (dict) --

        • Name (string) -- [REQUIRED] The name of the replaceable attribute.

        • Value (string) -- [REQUIRED] The value of the replaceable attribute.

        • Replace (boolean) -- A flag specifying whether or not to replace the attribute/value pair or to add a new attribute/value pair. The default setting is false .

returns

None

PutAttributes (new) Link ¶

The PutAttributes operation creates or replaces attributes in an item. The client may specify new attributes using a combination of the Attribute.X.Name and Attribute.X.Value parameters. The client specifies the first attribute by the parameters Attribute.0.Name and Attribute.0.Value , the second attribute by the parameters Attribute.1.Name and Attribute.1.Value , and so on.

Attributes are uniquely identified in an item by their name/value combination. For example, a single item can have the attributes { "first_name", "first_value" } and { "first_name", second_value" } . However, it cannot have two attribute instances where both the Attribute.X.Name and Attribute.X.Value are the same.

Optionally, the requestor can supply the Replace parameter for each individual attribute. Setting this value to true causes the new attribute value to replace the existing attribute value(s). For example, if an item has the attributes { 'a', '1' } , { 'b', '2'} and { 'b', '3' } and the requestor calls PutAttributes using the attributes { 'b', '4' } with the Replace parameter set to true, the final attributes of the item are changed to { 'a', '1' } and { 'b', '4' } , which replaces the previous values of the 'b' attribute with the new value.

Note

Using PutAttributes to replace attribute values that do not exist will not result in an error response.

You cannot specify an empty string as an attribute name.

Because Amazon SimpleDB makes multiple copies of client data and uses an eventual consistency update model, an immediate GetAttributes or Select operation (read) immediately after a PutAttributes or DeleteAttributes operation (write) might not return the updated data.

The following limitations are enforced for this operation:

  • 256 total attribute name-value pairs per item

  • One billion attributes per domain

  • 10 GB of total user data storage per domain

Request Syntax

client.put_attributes(
    DomainName='string',
    ItemName='string',
    Attributes=[
        {
            'Name': 'string',
            'Value': 'string',
            'Replace': True|False
        },
    ],
    Expected={
        'Name': 'string',
        'Value': 'string',
        'Exists': True|False
    }
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain in which to perform the operation.

type ItemName

string

param ItemName

[REQUIRED] The name of the item.

type Attributes

list

param Attributes

[REQUIRED] The list of attributes.

  • (dict) --

    • Name (string) -- [REQUIRED] The name of the replaceable attribute.

    • Value (string) -- [REQUIRED] The value of the replaceable attribute.

    • Replace (boolean) -- A flag specifying whether or not to replace the attribute/value pair or to add a new attribute/value pair. The default setting is false .

type Expected

dict

param Expected

The update condition which, if specified, determines whether the specified attributes will be updated or not. The update condition must be satisfied in order for this request to be processed and the attributes to be updated.

  • Name (string) --

    The name of the attribute involved in the condition.

  • Value (string) --

    The value of an attribute. This value can only be specified when the Exists parameter is equal to true .

  • Exists (boolean) --

    A value specifying whether or not the specified attribute must exist with the specified value in order for the update condition to be satisfied. Specify true if the attribute must exist for the update condition to be satisfied. Specify false if the attribute should not exist in order for the update condition to be satisfied.

returns

None

Select (new) Link ¶

The Select operation returns a set of attributes for ItemNames that match the select expression. Select is similar to the standard SQL SELECT statement.

The total size of the response cannot exceed 1 MB in total size. Amazon SimpleDB automatically adjusts the number of items returned per page to enforce this limit. For example, if the client asks to retrieve 2500 items, but each individual item is 10 kB in size, the system returns 100 items and an appropriate NextToken so the client can access the next page of results.

For information on how to construct select expressions, see Using Select to Create Amazon SimpleDB Queries in the Developer Guide.

Request Syntax

client.select(
    SelectExpression='string',
    NextToken='string',
    ConsistentRead=True|False
)
type SelectExpression

string

param SelectExpression

[REQUIRED] The expression used to query the domain.

type NextToken

string

param NextToken

A string informing Amazon SimpleDB where to start the next list of ItemNames .

type ConsistentRead

boolean

param ConsistentRead

Determines whether or not strong consistency should be enforced when data is read from SimpleDB. If true , any data previously written to SimpleDB will be returned. Otherwise, results will be consistent eventually, and the client may not see data that was written immediately before your read.

rtype

dict

returns

Response Syntax

{
    'Items': [
        {
            'Name': 'string',
            'AlternateNameEncoding': 'string',
            'Attributes': [
                {
                    'Name': 'string',
                    'AlternateNameEncoding': 'string',
                    'Value': 'string',
                    'AlternateValueEncoding': 'string'
                },
            ]
        },
    ],
    'NextToken': 'string'
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) --

    • Items (list) -- A list of items that match the select expression.

      • (dict) --

        • Name (string) -- The name of the item.

        • AlternateNameEncoding (string) --

        • Attributes (list) -- A list of attributes.

          • (dict) --

            • Name (string) -- The name of the attribute.

            • AlternateNameEncoding (string) --

            • Value (string) -- The value of the attribute.

            • AlternateValueEncoding (string) --

    • NextToken (string) -- An opaque token indicating that more items than MaxNumberOfItems were matched, the response size exceeded 1 megabyte, or the execution time exceeded 5 seconds.

DeleteDomain (new) Link ¶

The DeleteDomain operation deletes a domain. Any items (and their attributes) in the domain are deleted as well. The DeleteDomain operation might take 10 or more seconds to complete.

Note

Running DeleteDomain on a domain that does not exist or running the function multiple times using the same domain name will not result in an error response.

Request Syntax

client.delete_domain(
    DomainName='string'
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain to delete.

returns

None

CreateDomain (new) Link ¶

The CreateDomain operation creates a new domain. The domain name should be unique among the domains associated with the Access Key ID provided in the request. The CreateDomain operation may take 10 or more seconds to complete.

Note

CreateDomain is an idempotent operation; running it multiple times using the same domain name will not result in an error response.

The client can create up to 100 domains per account.

If the client requires additional domains, go to http://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/simpledb-limit-request/.

Request Syntax

client.create_domain(
    DomainName='string'
)
type DomainName

string

param DomainName

[REQUIRED] The name of the domain to create. The name can range between 3 and 255 characters and can contain the following characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '_', '-', and '.'.

returns

None