Working with the DynamoDB API - DynamoDB Applied Design Patterns - page 154

ListTables
The following code lists not more than three tables whose names begin with or alphabetic-
ally come after Tbl_Book . For example, if we have three tables in our DynamoDB,
namely, Tbl_Book , Tbl_Library , and Table_One , the following request will return
only Tbl_Book and Tbl_Library . The reason why Table_One will not be returned
is that if we sort the three tables based on alphabetical order of their names, Table_One
will take first place, Tbl_Book will take second place, and Tbl_Library will take
third place. Here we are performing the list operation with ExclusiveStartT-
ableName as Tbl_Book .
Because of the fact that alphabetically Table_One comes prior to Tbl_Book , it is not
returned.
{
"ExclusiveStartTableName": "Tbl_Book","Limit": 3
}
We have only two tables in our account. So, the response will have only two table names in
the array, as follows:
{
"LastEvaluatedTableName": "Tbl_Library",
"TableNames": ["Tbl_Book","Tbl_Library"]
}