Provide a high-level DynamoDB client

[michaelbrewer]

Describe the feature

Provide a high-level DynamoDB client which performs object-data mapping, similar to the DynamoDBMapper for the AWS SDK for Java.

Is your Feature Request related to a problem?

Loading and inserting values using the attribute values apis is tedious

Proposed Solution

see the existing aws java sdk v1 (or v2) DynamoDbMapper

Describe alternative solutions or features you've considered

No response

Acknowledge

• [ ] I may be able to implement this feature request

AWS Kotlin SDK version used

all

Platform (JVM/JS/Native)

all

Operating System and version

all

[ianbotsf]

Hi @michaelbrewer, thank you for the feature request. We'd definitely love to provide the equivalent of DynamoDbMapper in the future. I'll leave this request open to allow others to 👍 upvote and that may help us with prioritization.

[ianbotsf]

Additional context from #76:

We might be able to do this as a compiler plugin and generate rather optimized code so that we don't have to rely on annotation processing (which I believe is JVM only at the moment) OR on reflection capabilities.

See a good high level overview of considerations from rust SDK: awslabs/aws-sdk-rust#70

[popematt]

Another possibility might be to leverage kotlinx.serialization. I haven't looked into it too thoroughly yet, but it seems like it would be straightforward to convert classes to and from DynamoDB Json.

[randyhbh]

Any update on this issue?

[ianbotsf]

We have no new updates to share at this time. Providing a high-level DynamoDB client remains on our roadmap but will likely not be prioritized until the underlying SDK itself (including the low-level DynamoDB client) is stable and released as 1.0.