AWS SDK Version 2 for .NET
API Reference

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.NET Framework 4.5
 
Container for the parameters to the CreateTable operation. The CreateTable operation adds a new table to your account. In an AWS account, table names must be unique within each region. That is, you can have two tables with same name if you create the tables in different regions.

CreateTable is an asynchronous operation. Upon receiving a CreateTable request, DynamoDB immediately returns a response with a TableStatus of CREATING. After the table is created, DynamoDB sets the TableStatus to ACTIVE. You can perform read and write operations only on an ACTIVE table.

You can optionally define secondary indexes on the new table, as part of the CreateTable operation. If you want to create multiple tables with secondary indexes on them, you must create the tables sequentially. Only one table with secondary indexes can be in the CREATING state at any given time.

You can use the DescribeTable API to check the table status.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Amazon.Runtime.AmazonWebServiceRequest
    Amazon.DynamoDBv2.AmazonDynamoDBRequest
      Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model.CreateTableRequest

Namespace: Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model
Assembly: AWSSDK.dll
Version: (assembly version)

Syntax

C#
public class CreateTableRequest : AmazonDynamoDBRequest
         IRequestEvents

The CreateTableRequest type exposes the following members

Constructors

NameDescription
Public Method CreateTableRequest() Empty constructor used to set properties independently even when a simple constructor is available
Public Method CreateTableRequest(string, List<KeySchemaElement>)
Public Method CreateTableRequest(string, List<KeySchemaElement>, List<AttributeDefinition>, ProvisionedThroughput)

Properties

NameTypeDescription
Public Property AttributeDefinitions System.Collections.Generic.List<Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model.AttributeDefinition> Gets and sets the property AttributeDefinitions.

An array of attributes that describe the key schema for the table and indexes.

Public Property GlobalSecondaryIndexes System.Collections.Generic.List<Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model.GlobalSecondaryIndex> Gets and sets the property GlobalSecondaryIndexes.

One or more global secondary indexes (the maximum is five) to be created on the table. Each global secondary index in the array includes the following:

  • IndexName - The name of the global secondary index. Must be unique only for this table.

  • KeySchema - Specifies the key schema for the global secondary index.

  • Projection - Specifies attributes that are copied (projected) from the table into the index. These are in addition to the primary key attributes and index key attributes, which are automatically projected. Each attribute specification is composed of:

    • ProjectionType - One of the following:

      • KEYS_ONLY - Only the index and primary keys are projected into the index.

      • INCLUDE - Only the specified table attributes are projected into the index. The list of projected attributes are in NonKeyAttributes.

      • ALL - All of the table attributes are projected into the index.

    • NonKeyAttributes - A list of one or more non-key attribute names that are projected into the secondary index. The total count of attributes provided in NonKeyAttributes, summed across all of the secondary indexes, must not exceed 20. If you project the same attribute into two different indexes, this counts as two distinct attributes when determining the total.

  • ProvisionedThroughput - The provisioned throughput settings for the global secondary index, consisting of read and write capacity units.

Public Property KeySchema System.Collections.Generic.List<Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model.KeySchemaElement> Gets and sets the property KeySchema.

Specifies the attributes that make up the primary key for a table or an index. The attributes in KeySchema must also be defined in the AttributeDefinitions array. For more information, see Data Model in the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide.

Each KeySchemaElement in the array is composed of:

  • AttributeName - The name of this key attribute.

  • KeyType - The role that the key attribute will assume:

    • HASH - partition key

    • RANGE - sort key

The partition key of an item is also known as its hash attribute. The term "hash attribute" derives from DynamoDB' usage of an internal hash function to evenly distribute data items across partitions, based on their partition key values.

The sort key of an item is also known as its range attribute. The term "range attribute" derives from the way DynamoDB stores items with the same partition key physically close together, in sorted order by the sort key value.

For a simple primary key (partition key), you must provide exactly one element with a KeyType of HASH.

For a composite primary key (partition key and sort key), you must provide exactly two elements, in this order: The first element must have a KeyType of HASH, and the second element must have a KeyType of RANGE.

For more information, see Specifying the Primary Key in the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide.

Public Property LocalSecondaryIndexes System.Collections.Generic.List<Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model.LocalSecondaryIndex> Gets and sets the property LocalSecondaryIndexes.

One or more local secondary indexes (the maximum is five) to be created on the table. Each index is scoped to a given partition key value. There is a 10 GB size limit per partition key value; otherwise, the size of a local secondary index is unconstrained.

Each local secondary index in the array includes the following:

  • IndexName - The name of the local secondary index. Must be unique only for this table.

  • KeySchema - Specifies the key schema for the local secondary index. The key schema must begin with the same partition key as the table.

  • Projection - Specifies attributes that are copied (projected) from the table into the index. These are in addition to the primary key attributes and index key attributes, which are automatically projected. Each attribute specification is composed of:

    • ProjectionType - One of the following:

      • KEYS_ONLY - Only the index and primary keys are projected into the index.

      • INCLUDE - Only the specified table attributes are projected into the index. The list of projected attributes are in NonKeyAttributes.

      • ALL - All of the table attributes are projected into the index.

    • NonKeyAttributes - A list of one or more non-key attribute names that are projected into the secondary index. The total count of attributes provided in NonKeyAttributes, summed across all of the secondary indexes, must not exceed 20. If you project the same attribute into two different indexes, this counts as two distinct attributes when determining the total.

Public Property ProvisionedThroughput Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model.ProvisionedThroughput Gets and sets the property ProvisionedThroughput.
Public Property StreamSpecification Amazon.DynamoDBv2.Model.StreamSpecification Gets and sets the property StreamSpecification.

The settings for DynamoDB Streams on the table. These settings consist of:

  • StreamEnabled - Indicates whether Streams is to be enabled (true) or disabled (false).

  • StreamViewType - When an item in the table is modified, StreamViewType determines what information is written to the table's stream. Valid values for StreamViewType are:

    • KEYS_ONLY - Only the key attributes of the modified item are written to the stream.

    • NEW_IMAGE - The entire item, as it appears after it was modified, is written to the stream.

    • OLD_IMAGE - The entire item, as it appeared before it was modified, is written to the stream.

    • NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES - Both the new and the old item images of the item are written to the stream.

Public Property TableName System.String Gets and sets the property TableName.

The name of the table to create.

Examples

This example shows how to create a new table with a single hash-key component.

CreateTable sample


// Create a client
AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient();

// Define table schema:
//  Table has a hash-key "Author" and a range-key "Title"
List<KeySchemaElement> schema = new List<KeySchemaElement>
{
    new KeySchemaElement
    {
        AttributeName = "Author", KeyType = "HASH"
    },
    new KeySchemaElement
    {
        AttributeName = "Title", KeyType = "RANGE"
    }
};

// Define key attributes:
//  The key attributes "Author" and "Title" are string types
List<AttributeDefinition> definitions = new List<AttributeDefinition>
{
    new AttributeDefinition
    {
        AttributeName = "Author", AttributeType = "S"
    },
    new AttributeDefinition
    {
        AttributeName = "Title", AttributeType = "S"
    }
};

// Define table throughput:
//  Table has capacity of 20 reads and 50 writes
ProvisionedThroughput throughput = new ProvisionedThroughput
{
    ReadCapacityUnits = 20,
    WriteCapacityUnits = 50
};

// Configure the CreateTable request
CreateTableRequest request = new CreateTableRequest
{
    TableName = "SampleTable",
    KeySchema = schema,
    ProvisionedThroughput = throughput,
    AttributeDefinitions = definitions
};

// View new table properties
TableDescription tableDescription = client.CreateTable(request).TableDescription;
Console.WriteLine("Table name: {0}", tableDescription.TableName);
Console.WriteLine("Creation time: {0}", tableDescription.CreationDateTime);
Console.WriteLine("Item count: {0}", tableDescription.ItemCount);
Console.WriteLine("Table size (bytes): {0}", tableDescription.TableSizeBytes);
Console.WriteLine("Table status: {0}", tableDescription.TableStatus);

// List table key schema
List<KeySchemaElement> tableSchema = tableDescription.KeySchema;
for (int i = 0; i < tableSchema.Count; i++)
{
    KeySchemaElement element = tableSchema[i];
    Console.WriteLine("Key: Name = {0}, KeyType = {1}",
        element.AttributeName, element.KeyType);
}

// List attribute definitions
List<AttributeDefinition> attributeDefinitions = tableDescription.AttributeDefinitions;
for (int i = 0; i < attributeDefinitions.Count; i++)
{
    AttributeDefinition definition = attributeDefinitions[i];
    Console.WriteLine("Attribute: Name = {0}, Type = {1}",
        definition.AttributeName, definition.AttributeType);
}

Console.WriteLine("Throughput: Reads = {0}, Writes = {1}",
    tableDescription.ProvisionedThroughput.ReadCapacityUnits,
    tableDescription.ProvisionedThroughput.WriteCapacityUnits);

                

This example shows how to create a table similar to the previous sample, but with Local Secondary Indexes configured.
The new table will have two indexes: YearsIndex and SettingsIndex.

CreateTable Local Secondary Index sample


// Create a client
AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient();

// Define table schema:
//  Table has a hash-key "Author" and a range-key "Title"
List<KeySchemaElement> schema = new List<KeySchemaElement>
{
    new KeySchemaElement
    {
        AttributeName = "Author", KeyType = "HASH"
    },
    new KeySchemaElement
    {
        AttributeName = "Title", KeyType = "RANGE"
    }
};

// Define local secondary indexes:
//  Table has two indexes, one on "Year" and the other on "Setting"
List<LocalSecondaryIndex> indexes = new List<LocalSecondaryIndex>
{
    new LocalSecondaryIndex
    {
        IndexName = "YearsIndex",
        KeySchema = new List<KeySchemaElement>
        {
            // Hash key must match table hash key
            new KeySchemaElement { AttributeName = "Author", KeyType = "HASH" },
            // Secondary index on "Year" attribute
            new KeySchemaElement { AttributeName = "Year", KeyType = "RANGE" }
        },
        // Projection type is set to ALL, all attributes returned for this index
        Projection = new Projection
        {
            ProjectionType = "ALL"
        }
    },
    new LocalSecondaryIndex
    {
        IndexName = "SettingsIndex",
        KeySchema = new List<KeySchemaElement>
        {
            // Hash key must match table hash key
            new KeySchemaElement { AttributeName = "Author", KeyType = "HASH" },
            // Secondary index on "Setting" attribute
            new KeySchemaElement { AttributeName = "Setting", KeyType = "RANGE" }
        },
        // Projection type is set to INCLUDE, the specified attributes + keys are returned
        Projection = new Projection
        {
            ProjectionType = "INCLUDE",
            NonKeyAttributes = new List<string>
            {
                "Pages", "Genres"
            }
        }
    }
};

// Define key attributes:
//  The key attributes "Author" and "Title" are string types.
//  The local secondary index attributes are "Year" (numerical) and "Setting" (string).
List<AttributeDefinition> definitions = new List<AttributeDefinition>
{
    new AttributeDefinition
    {
        AttributeName = "Author", AttributeType = "S"
    },
    new AttributeDefinition
    {
        AttributeName = "Title", AttributeType = "S"
    },
    new AttributeDefinition
    {
        AttributeName = "Year", AttributeType = "N"
    },
    new AttributeDefinition
    {
        AttributeName = "Setting", AttributeType = "S"
    }
};

// Define table throughput:
//  Table has capacity of 20 reads and 50 writes
ProvisionedThroughput throughput = new ProvisionedThroughput
{
    ReadCapacityUnits = 20,
    WriteCapacityUnits = 50
};

// Configure the CreateTable request
CreateTableRequest request = new CreateTableRequest
{
    TableName = "SampleTable",
    KeySchema = schema,
    ProvisionedThroughput = throughput,
    AttributeDefinitions = definitions,
    LocalSecondaryIndexes = indexes
};

// View new table properties
TableDescription tableDescription = client.CreateTable(request).TableDescription;
Console.WriteLine("Table name: {0}", tableDescription.TableName);
Console.WriteLine("Creation time: {0}", tableDescription.CreationDateTime);
Console.WriteLine("Item count: {0}", tableDescription.ItemCount);
Console.WriteLine("Table size (bytes): {0}", tableDescription.TableSizeBytes);
Console.WriteLine("Table status: {0}", tableDescription.TableStatus);

// List table key schema
List<KeySchemaElement> tableSchema = tableDescription.KeySchema;
for (int i = 0; i < tableSchema.Count; i++)
{
    KeySchemaElement element = tableSchema[i];
    Console.WriteLine("Key: Name = {0}, KeyType = {1}",
        element.AttributeName, element.KeyType);
}

// List attribute definitions
List<AttributeDefinition> attributeDefinitions = tableDescription.AttributeDefinitions;
for (int i = 0; i < attributeDefinitions.Count; i++)
{
    AttributeDefinition definition = attributeDefinitions[i];
    Console.WriteLine("Attribute: Name = {0}, Type = {1}",
        definition.AttributeName, definition.AttributeType);
}

Console.WriteLine("Throughput: Reads = {0}, Writes = {1}",
    tableDescription.ProvisionedThroughput.ReadCapacityUnits,
    tableDescription.ProvisionedThroughput.WriteCapacityUnits);

            

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5

.NET for Windows Store apps:
Supported in: Windows 8.1, Windows 8

.NET for Windows Phone:
Supported in: Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Phone 8