updating a JSON array in AWS dynamoDB

Question

My document looks like this:

{
  \"data\": {
      \"eventId\": \"20161029125458-df-d\",
      \"name\": \"first\",
      \"purpose\": \"test\",
      \"loca         


        

Answer 1

I could not find any answer to query and update the JSON-array. I think this may be AWS profitable motive to not allow those features. If you need to query on a particular ID other than primary key, you need to make a secondary index which is cost effective. This secondary index cost is additional to the dyn amoDB table cost.

Since, I did not want to pay extra bucks on secondary index, I changed my dynamoDB schema to the following:

{
  "data": {
      "eventId": "20161029125458-df-d",
      "name": "first",
      "purpose": "test",
      "location": "yokohama",
      "dateArray": [],
      "attendees": {
        "2016102973634-df": {
          "attendeeId": "2016102973634-df",
          "attendeeName": "lakshman",
          "personalizedDateSelection": {}
        },
        "2016102973777-df": {
          "attendeeId": "2016102973777-df",
          "attendeeName": "ffff",
          "personalizedDateSelection": {}
        }
      }
    }
}

Changing attendees from [] to {}. This allows me the flexibility to query particular attendeeId and change the entire JSON associated with that. Even though, this is a redundant step, I do not want to spend extra bucks on my hobby project.