Working with Amazon DynamoDB tables the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains
The primary resource of Amazon DynamoDB is a data-base table. The following sections describe how to work with DynamoDB tables from the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains.
Viewing a DynamoDB table
To view a DynamoDB table, complete the following steps:
Navigate to the Explorer tab in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains.
Expand the DynamoDB node.
From your list of DynamoDB resources, double-click a table to view it in the Editor window.
Note
The first time you view table data, an initial scan with a max-result limit of 50 items is retrieved.
Setting the max-result limit
To change the default limit of retrieved table entries, compete the following steps:
From the AWS Explorer, double-click a table to view it in the JetBrains Editor window.
From the table view, choose the Settings icon, located in the upper-right hand corner of your Editor window.
Hover over the Max Results option to view a list of available max-result values.
Scanning a DynamoDB table
To scan a DynamoDB table, complete the following steps:
Note
This scan generates a PartiQL query and requires that you have the correct AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) policies in place. To learn more about the PartiQL security policy requirements, see the IAM security policies with PartiQL for DynamoDB topic in the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide.
From the AWS Explorer, double-click a table to view it in the JetBrains Editor window.
From the table view, expand the Scan header.
Select the Table/ Index you want to scan from the drop-down menu.
Choose Run to proceed with the scan, the scan is complete when the table data is returned in the Editor window.
