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In this tutorial, we will learn about how to delete a table in dynamoDB using java language.

DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database services offered by Amazon as part of its Amazon Web Service (AWS) portfolio. It provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB is a key-value datastore, where each item (row) in a table is a key-value pair. The primary key is the only required attribute for an item and uniquely identifies each item. DynamoDB is schema-less, which means that each item in a table can have any number of attributes and the types of attributes can vary from item to item.

Project Setup

Create a simple maven project in your favorite IDE and add below mentioned dependency in your pom.xml file.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
  <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
  <version>1.11.524</version>
</dependency>

For latest version of aws library, check this page.

DynamoDB Connection

Create an object of AmazonDynamoDB ( com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.AmazonDynamoDB ) class for sending a client request to dynamoDB. To get instance of this class, we will use AmazonDynamoDBClientBuilder builder class. It requires three important parameters :- 

1. Region :- It is a region where dynamoDB table will be stored.
2. ACCESS_KEY :- It is a access key for using dynamoDB. You can generate this key, using aws management console.
3. SECRET_KEY :- It is a secret key of above mentioned access key.

Here is a code example :-

AmazonDynamoDB dynamoDB = AmazonDynamoDBClientBuilder.standard()
				.withRegion(Regions.AP_SOUTH_1)
				.withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider
                                                    (new BasicAWSCredentials("ACCESS_KEY","SECRET_KEY")))
				.build();

Delete Table

Steps to create and send DeleteTableRequest to dynamoDB are as follows:-

1. Instantiate DeleteTableRequest object, this object will be used to send the client request to dynamoDB.
2. Set name of the table which we like to delete. In our case JOB.
3. Invoke the deleteTable method on AmazonDynamoDB object by passing DeleteTableRequest object as an argument.

Example

import com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException;
import com.amazonaws.auth.AWSStaticCredentialsProvider;
import com.amazonaws.auth.BasicAWSCredentials;
import com.amazonaws.regions.Regions;
import com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.AmazonDynamoDB;
import com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.AmazonDynamoDBClientBuilder;
import com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.model.DeleteTableRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.model.DeleteTableResult;

public class DeleteTable {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		/* Create DynamoDB Client Object */
		AmazonDynamoDB dynamoDB = AmazonDynamoDBClientBuilder
				.standard()
				.withRegion(Regions.AP_SOUTH_1)
				.withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider
                                                    (new BasicAWSCredentials("ACCESS_KEY","SECRET_KEY")))
				.build();
		
		/* Create an Object of DeleteTableRequest */
		DeleteTableRequest request = new DeleteTableRequest();
		
		/* Setting Table Name */
		request.setTableName("JOB");
		
        try {
        	/* Send Delete Table Request */
        	DeleteTableResult result = dynamoDB.deleteTable(request);
            
            System.out.println("Status : " +  result.getSdkHttpMetadata().getHttpStatusCode());
            
            System.out.println("Table Name : " +  result.getTableDescription().getTableName());
            
            /* Creating and Sending request with Table Name only */
            result = dynamoDB.deleteTable("USER");
            
            System.out.println("Status : " +  result.getSdkHttpMetadata().getHttpStatusCode());
            
            System.out.println("Table Name : " +  result.getTableDescription().getTableName());            
            
        } catch (AmazonServiceException e) {
        	
            System.out.println(e.getErrorMessage());
            
        }

	}

}

References :-

1. DeleteTableRequest Java Docs
2. DeleteTableResult Java Docs

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