Reading an Amazon DynamoDB Table Item

The following example uses the DynamoDB GetItem operation to retrieve information about the item with the year 2015 and title The Big New Movie in the movies table in your default region.

Create the file DynamoDBReadItem.go. Add the following statements to import the Go and AWS SDK for Go packages used in the example.

import (
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/dynamodb"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/dynamodb/dynamodbattribute"

    "fmt"
    "log"
)

Create the data structure we use to contain the information about the table item.

// Create struct to hold info about new item
type Item struct {
    Year   int
    Title  string
    Plot   string
    Rating float64
}

Initialize a session that the SDK will use to load credentials from the shared credentials file ~/.aws/credentials and region from the shared configuration file ~/.aws/config and create a new DynamoDB service client.

// Initialize a session that the SDK will use to load
// credentials from the shared credentials file ~/.aws/credentials
// and region from the shared configuration file ~/.aws/config.
sess := session.Must(session.NewSessionWithOptions(session.Options{
    SharedConfigState: session.SharedConfigEnable,
}))

// Create DynamoDB client
svc := dynamodb.New(sess)

Call GetItem to get the item from the table. If we encounter an error, print the error message. Otherwise, display information about the item.

tableName := "Movies"
movieName := "The Big New Movie"
movieYear := "2015"

result, err := svc.GetItem(&dynamodb.GetItemInput{
    TableName: aws.String(tableName),
    Key: map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue{
        "Year": {
            N: aws.String(movieYear),
        },
        "Title": {
            S: aws.String(movieName),
        },
    },
})
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalf("Got error calling GetItem: %s", err)
}

If an item was returned, unmarshall the return value and display the year, title, plot, and rating.

if result.Item == nil {
    msg := "Could not find '" + *title + "'"
    return nil, errors.New(msg)
}
    
item := Item{}

err = dynamodbattribute.UnmarshalMap(result.Item, &item)
if err != nil {
    panic(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to unmarshal Record, %v", err))
}

fmt.Println("Found item:")
fmt.Println("Year:  ", item.Year)
fmt.Println("Title: ", item.Title)
fmt.Println("Plot:  ", item.Plot)
fmt.Println("Rating:", item.Rating)

See the complete example on GitHub.