Features

• Mypy-typed API

• Python object wrappers for most AWS data structures

• Automatic serialization of built-in types, with hooks for custom types

• Automatic paging of results

• Automatic batching for batch_write_item

• Exponential backoff of requests when throughput is exceeded

• Throughput limits to self-throttle requests to a certain rate

• Nose plugin for running DynamoDB Local

DynamoDB features that are not yet supported

• Reading from streams

• Adding/removing tags on a table

• Table backups

• Scanning with segments

• Table replicas (Global tables version 2019.11.21)

• Table auto scaling

• DAX

Note that you can still access these APIs by using DynamoDBConnection.call, though you may prefer to go straight to boto3/botocore.

1.0.0

• Removed the legacy API (scan, query, update_item, delete_item, put_item, get_item)

• Renamed the new API methods to match the old ones (e.g. scan2 -> scan, query2 -> query)

• Moved constant values into dynamo3.constants. This is where you can now find STRING, BINARY, etc

• Added mypy typing where possible

• Drop support for Python 2

• Add support for table billing mode (aka on-demand tables)

• Add support for SSE, TTL, and transactions

0.4.10

• Fixed DynamoDB Local link in testing framework

0.4.9

• Feature: Result objects from get_item have an exists flag

• Feature: wait keyword for create and delete table

0.4.8

• Bug fix: Scans/Queries could return incomplete results if AWS returned an empty Items list

0.4.7

• New RateLimit class to avoid blowing through your provisioned throughput

0.4.6

• New Limit class for more complex query limit behavior

• Bug fix: Scan and Query with Select='COUNT' will page results properly

0.4.5

• batch_get supports alias arg for ExpressionAttributeNames

0.4.4

• Make connection stateless again. Puts consumed_capacity into response object and fixes mystery crash.

0.4.3

• Bug fix: getting ConsumedCapacity doesn’t crash for BatchGetItem and BatchWriteItem

• Feature: connection.default_return_capacity

• Feature: hooks for precall, postcall, and capacity

• Better handling of ConsumedCapacity results

0.4.2

• Feature: New methods to take advantage of the newer expression API. See get_item2, put_item2.

• Feature: Shortcut use_version for switching over to the new APIs.

0.4.1

• Feature: update_table can create and delete global indexes

• Feature: New methods to take advantage of the newer expression API. See scan2, query2, update_item2, and delete_item2.

0.4.0

• Migrating to botocore client API since services will be deprecated soon

0.3.2

• Bug fix: Serialization of blobs broken with botocore 0.85.0

0.3.1

• Bug fix: Crash when parsing description of table being deleted

0.3.0

• Breakage: Dropping support for python 3.2 due to lack of botocore support

• Feature: Support JSON document data types

Features thanks to DynamoDB upgrades: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/dynamodb-update-json-and-more/

0.2.2

• Tweak: Nose plugin allows setting region when connecting to DynamoDB Local

0.2.1

• Feature: New, unified connect method

0.2.0

• Feature: More expressive ‘expected’ conditionals

• Feature: Queries can filter on non-indexed fields

• Feature: Filter constraints may be OR’d together

Features thanks to DynamoDB upgrades: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/improved-queries-and-updates-for-dynamodb/

0.1.3

• Bug fix: sometimes crash after deleting table

• Bug fix: DynamoDB Local nose plugin fails

0.1.2

• Bug fix: serializing ints fails

0.1.1

• Feature: Allow access_key and secret_key to be passed to the DynamoDBConnection.connect_to_* methods

0.1.0

• First public release