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Josewails
Josewails

Reputation: 580

REST endpoint to access an item stored inside DynamoDB

I have a dynamo table storing an item with the primary and secondary keys as follows:

pk: Parent#{parent_id}

sk: Child#{child_id}.

This means when designing a GET endpoint to retreive the child, I need both the parent id and the child id, resulting into something like: /api/children/{parent_id}/{child_id}.

For some reason, this doesn't feel right to me. Is this a bad practise?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 33

Answers (1)

hunterhacker
hunterhacker

Reputation: 7122

It's not necessarily bad. For example, with Amazon S3 the bucket is the parent and the key is the child. And here's one way how S3 exposes access:

https://s3.Region.amazonaws.com/bucket-name/key-name

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/access-bucket-intro.html

Upvotes: 1

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