What is the best way to check if table exists in DynamoDB?

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What is the best way to check if table exists in DynamoDb?

I would appreciate it if the code would be in PHP.

Either active or not.

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Answer 1

I think the answer that solves this with describeTable is a good one, but fooling around with the status code response makes the code less readable and more confusing.

I chose to check for a tables existence using listTables. Here are the docs

$tableName = 'my_table';

$client = DynamoDbClient::factory(array('region' => 'us-west-2'));

$response = $client->listTables();

if (!in_array($tableName, $response['TableNames'])) {
    // handle non-existence.
    // throw an error if you want or whatever
}

// handle existence
echo "Table " . $tableName . " exists";