Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Request body
All of the headers in the previous section are used for authentication and provide metadata
for this REST operation. It restricts itself by saying only
how
to perform an operation;
what
to perform will be specified in the request body itself. For example, the header specifies
that we need to perform table creation, but the table name, attribute configurations, and so
on, must be specified in the request body.
In most of the DynamoDB operations, the request header will remain the same (except in a
few places, such as
x-amz-target
, where the request header will change based on the
operation we need to perform), but the request body will change for every request. So we
will discuss this in the last section of this chapter.
