Setting Up and Tearing Down Environments with the AWS CDK

• git clone https://github.com/ACloudGuru-Resources/cdk-lab-1.git
• cd cdk-lab-1
• npm install

import * as AWSXRay from 'aws-xray-sdk';
import * as AWSSDK from 'aws-sdk';
import { APIGatewayProxyEvent } from "aws-lambda";

//define DocumentClient
const AWS = AWSXRay.captureAWS(AWSSDK);
const docClient = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();

//define table by variable passed from stack
const table = process.env.DYNAMODB || "undefined"

//putItems function uses params to scan a dynamodb table
async function putItem(){
  try {
    const data = await docClient.put(params).promise()
    return data
  } catch (err) {
    return err
  }
}


//actual handler logs events and calls scanItems
//logs error on catch
exports.handler = async (event:APIGatewayProxyEvent) => {
  try {
      console.log(event)
      console.log(event.body)
      const obj = JSON.parse(event.body)
        
      const ID = obj.id;
      const NAME = obj.name
        
      //define table and item in params
      const params = {
          TableName: table,
          Item: {
               id: {S: ID},
               name: {S: NAME}
          }
      };
    const data = await putItem(params)
    return { body: JSON.stringify(data) }
  } catch (err) {
    return { error: err }
  }
}