Serverless Programming Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's discuss the steps to create a table from Lambda without repeating the common steps we already discussed:

1. Create a Maven project for the Lambda with the common parent and the DynamoDB Java SDK dependency
2. Define the Request and Response domain objects

The Request object for the lambda-dynamodb-create-table Lambda is defined as follows:

@Datapublic class Request {    private String tableName;    private String partitionKey;    private String sortKey;    private long readCapacityUnits;    private long writeCapacityUnits;    private boolean waitForActive;}

The Response object is common to all Lambdas, as discussed in the Using the DynamoDB SDK from Lambda recipe.

3. Create the service implementation

A table can be created using the DynamoDB ...