I'm trying to set-up an AWS-lambda using aws-sdk-go that is triggered whenever a new user is added to a certain dynamodb table.
Everything is working just fine but I can't find a way to unmarshal a map map[string]DynamoDBAttributeValue like:
{
"name": {
"S" : "John"
},
"residence_address": {
"M": {
"address": {
"S": "some place"
}
}
}
}
To a given struct, for instance, a User struct. Here is shown an example of unsmarhaling a map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue into a given interface, but I can't find a way to do the same thing with map[string]DynamoDBAttributeValue even though these types seem to fit the same purposes.
map[string]DynamoDBAttributeValue is returned by a events.DynamoDBEvents from package github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events. This is my code:
package handler
import (
"context"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/dynamodb/dynamodbattribute"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/dynamodb"
)
func HandleDynamoDBRequest(ctx context.Context, e events.DynamoDBEvent) {
for _, record := range e.Records {
if record.EventName == "INSERT" {
// User Struct
var dynamoUser model.DynamoDBUser
// Of course this can't be done for incompatible types
_ := dynamodbattribute.UnmarshalMap(record.Change.NewImage, &dynamoUser)
}
}
}
Of course, I can marshal record.Change.NewImage to JSON and unmarshal it back to a given struct, but then, I would have to manually initialize dynamoUser attributes starting from the latter ones.
Or I could even write a function that parses map[string]DynamoDBAttributeValue to map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue like:
func getAttributeValueMapFromDynamoDBStreamRecord(e events.DynamoDBStreamRecord) map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue {
image := e.NewImage
m := make(map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue)
for k, v := range image {
if v.DataType() == events.DataTypeString {
s := v.String()
m[k] = &dynamodb.AttributeValue{
S : &s,
}
}
if v.DataType() == events.DataTypeBoolean {
b := v.Boolean()
m[k] = &dynamodb.AttributeValue{
BOOL : &b,
}
}
// . . .
if v.DataType() == events.DataTypeMap {
// ?
}
}
return m
}
And then simply use dynamodbattribute.UnmarshalMap, but on events.DataTypeMap it would be quite a tricky process.
Is there a way through which I can unmarshal a DynamoDB record coming from a events.DynamoDBEvent into a struct with a similar method shown for map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue?
I tried the function you provided, and I met some problems with events.DataTypeList, so I managed to write the following function that does the trick:
// UnmarshalStreamImage converts events.DynamoDBAttributeValue to struct
func UnmarshalStreamImage(attribute map[string]events.DynamoDBAttributeValue, out interface{}) error {
dbAttrMap := make(map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue)
for k, v := range attribute {
var dbAttr dynamodb.AttributeValue
bytes, marshalErr := v.MarshalJSON(); if marshalErr != nil {
return marshalErr
}
json.Unmarshal(bytes, &dbAttr)
dbAttrMap[k] = &dbAttr
}
return dynamodbattribute.UnmarshalMap(dbAttrMap, out)
}
For the moment I managed to solve this issue by implementing the function I mentioned in the question.
// May take either `map[string]DynamoDBAttributeValue`
// or `DynamoDBAttributeValue` as input.
func EventStreamToMap(attribute interface{}) map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue {
// Map to be returned
m := make(map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue)
tmp := make(map[string]events.DynamoDBAttributeValue)
switch t := attribute.(type) {
case map[string]events.DynamoDBAttributeValue:
tmp = t
case events.DynamoDBAttributeValue:
tmp = t.Map()
}
for k, v := range tmp {
switch v.DataType() {
case events.DataTypeString:
s := v.String()
m[k] = &dynamodb.AttributeValue{
S : &s,
}
case events.DataTypeBoolean:
b := v.Boolean()
m[k] = &dynamodb.AttributeValue{
BOOL : &b,
}
// case events.SomeOtherType:
// ...
case events.DataTypeMap:
m[k] = &dynamodb.AttributeValue{
M : EventStreamToMap(v),
}
}
}
return m
}
But I'm still open to other implementations.
I was frustrated that the type of NewImage from the record wasn't map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue so I could use the dynamodbattribute package.
The JSON representation of events.DynamoDBAttributeValue seems to be the same as the JSON represenation of dynamodb.AttributeValue.
So I tried creating my own DynamoDBEvent type and changed the type of OldImage and NewImage, so it would be marshalled into map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue instead of map[string]events.DynamoDBAttributeValue
It is a little bit ugly but it works for me.
package main
import (
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/dynamodb"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/dynamodb/dynamodbattribute"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
lambda.Start(lambdaHandler)
}
// changed type of event from: events.DynamoDBEvent to DynamoDBEvent (see below)
func lambdaHandler(event DynamoDBEvent) error {
for _, record := range event.Records {
change := record.Change
newImage := change.NewImage // now of type: map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue
var item IdOnly
err := dynamodbattribute.UnmarshalMap(newImage, &item)
if err != nil {
return err
}
fmt.Println(item.Id)
}
return nil
}
type IdOnly struct {
Id string `json:"id"`
}
type DynamoDBEvent struct {
Records []DynamoDBEventRecord `json:"Records"`
}
type DynamoDBEventRecord struct {
AWSRegion string `json:"awsRegion"`
Change DynamoDBStreamRecord `json:"dynamodb"`
EventID string `json:"eventID"`
EventName string `json:"eventName"`
EventSource string `json:"eventSource"`
EventVersion string `json:"eventVersion"`
EventSourceArn string `json:"eventSourceARN"`
UserIdentity *events.DynamoDBUserIdentity `json:"userIdentity,omitempty"`
}
type DynamoDBStreamRecord struct {
ApproximateCreationDateTime events.SecondsEpochTime `json:"ApproximateCreationDateTime,omitempty"`
// changed to map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue
Keys map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue `json:"Keys,omitempty"`
// changed to map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue
NewImage map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue `json:"NewImage,omitempty"`
// changed to map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue
OldImage map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue `json:"OldImage,omitempty"`
SequenceNumber string `json:"SequenceNumber"`
SizeBytes int64 `json:"SizeBytes"`
StreamViewType string `json:"StreamViewType"`
}