Error while trying to insert an item to DynamoDB from AWS ClI

Question

What am I doing wrong here, please help me :)

aws dynamodb put-item --table-name PhoneBook --item '{"PhoneNo":{"S","12345"},"Name":{"S","abc"}}' --return-consumed-capacity TOTAL

Error parsing parameter '--item': Expected: '=', received: ''' for input:

'{PhoneNo:{S,12345},Name:{S,abc}}'

^

 

Answer 1

If you don’t escape the double quotes in your statement then you will get the same error. Try the below line in AWS CLI and it should work.

aws dynamodb put-item --table-name PhoneBook --item "{""PhoneNo"":{""S"",""12345""},""Name"":{""S"",""abc""}}" --return-consumed-capacity TOTAL

This would be the output:

{

    "ConsumedCapacity": {

        "TableName": "PhoneBook",

        "CapacityUnits": 1.0

    }

}