UpdateDataCatalog - Amazon Athena

UpdateDataCatalog

Updates the data catalog that has the specified name.

Request Syntax

{ "Description": "string", "Name": "string", "Parameters": { "string" : "string" }, "Type": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Description

New or modified text that describes the data catalog.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

Name

The name of the data catalog to update. The catalog name must be unique for the AWS account and can use a maximum of 127 alphanumeric, underscore, at sign, or hyphen characters. The remainder of the length constraint of 256 is reserved for use by Athena.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: Yes

Parameters

Specifies the Lambda function or functions to use for updating the data catalog. This is a mapping whose values depend on the catalog type.

  • For the HIVE data catalog type, use the following syntax. The metadata-function parameter is required. The sdk-version parameter is optional and defaults to the currently supported version.

    metadata-function=lambda_arn, sdk-version=version_number

  • For the LAMBDA data catalog type, use one of the following sets of required parameters, but not both.

    • If you have one Lambda function that processes metadata and another for reading the actual data, use the following syntax. Both parameters are required.

      metadata-function=lambda_arn, record-function=lambda_arn

    • If you have a composite Lambda function that processes both metadata and data, use the following syntax to specify your Lambda function.

      function=lambda_arn

Type: String to string map

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Key Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 51200.

Required: No

Type

Specifies the type of data catalog to update. Specify LAMBDA for a federated catalog, HIVE for an external hive metastore, or GLUE for an AWS Glue Data Catalog.

Type: String

Valid Values: LAMBDA | GLUE | HIVE | FEDERATED

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalServerException

Indicates a platform issue, which may be due to a transient condition or outage.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

Indicates that something is wrong with the input to the request. For example, a required parameter may be missing or out of range.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: