How to launch local DynamoDB programmatically?

Question

I am able to launch a local DynamoDB server from bash through this command:

java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedD         


        

Answer 1

Write a gradle task to extract the Dynamodb-Local zip and now you can use https://github.com/marcoVermeulen/gradle-spawn-plugin gradle plugin to launch the dynamodb local. It is very easy to use and no need to do any process builder magic.

Sample code -

// to start dynamodb-local
task launch(type: SpawnProcessTask) {
    println("Launching....")
    command "java -Djava.library.path=/location/to/dynamodb-local/DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar /location/to/dynamodb-local/DynamoDBLocal.jar -inMemory -delayTransientStatuses"
    ready "Initializing DynamoDB Local"
}

// to stop dynamodb-local process
task stop(type: KillProcessTask)