DAX support

[joeyhotz]

Do you allow users to modify the dynamodb client used by dynamo easy? I want to be open to using DAX in the future and I'm not sure if this is supported from looking at the docs.

[ali-habibzadeh]

Ideal updateDynamoEasyConfig would have an additional field where we can pass client into and since Dax and Dynamodb have the same api, it shouldn't cause architecture change for dynamo-easy, besides abstracting out the underlying client used. Currently they are hardcoded inside dynamo services like import * as DynamoDB from 'aws-sdk/clients/dynamodb'.

However it shouldn't be a global setting only as most likely applications will consist of both tables that directly use Dynamodb client and tables assiciated with a dax cluster.

@joeyhotz in the meantime, if you don't have specific need for using the Transactions API then you can use https://github.com/awslabs/dynamodb-data-mapper-js which does support decorators like this but is also flexible in terms of taking client as an argument.

[simonmumenthaler]

hi @joeyhotz @ali-habibzadeh
I never worked with the DAX client - but:
The DynamoStore constructor takes as the second argument an optional DynamoDB client instance. So if the API from DAX is compatible it should already work. (Also every non-store request class (eg. BatchGetRequest) accepts an optional dynamoDB client)

I'd be nice if you could evaluate this :)

[itsdarrylnorris]

Hey @joeyhotz,

Any luck running DAX? I am considering using DAX on a project that I am working on right now.

[joeyhotz]

Hey all, sorry I've moved on to use postgres because dynamo didn't really suit my use case and hence didn't get a chance to test out dynamo-easy with a DAX client.

…

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 19:26, Darryl Norris ***@***.***> wrote: Hey @joeyhotz <https://github.com/joeyhotz>, Any luck running DAX? I am considering using DAX on a project that I am working on right now. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#305 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE7CHXLNIINRELBFA2W35G3R3QQFHANCNFSM4NNEV4XQ> .

[michaelwittwer]

closing this in favour of #374 holding relevant topics to be updated in the docs, serving as a knowledge base for now and also describing the strategy of the technical solution of the documentation part, envision it to be closer to the source code of the project