Get information about a DynamoDB table

        public static async Task<bool> GetTableInformation(AmazonDynamoDBClient client)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\n*** Retrieving table information ***");
            var request = new DescribeTableRequest
            {
                TableName = _tableName
            };

            var response = await client.DescribeTableAsync(request);

            TableDescription description = response.Table;
            Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", description.TableName);
            Console.WriteLine("# of items: {0}", description.ItemCount);
            Console.WriteLine("Provision Throughput (reads/sec): {0}",
                      description.ProvisionedThroughput.ReadCapacityUnits);
            Console.WriteLine("Provision Throughput (writes/sec): {0}",
                      description.ProvisionedThroughput.WriteCapacityUnits);

            return true;
        }

//! Describe an Amazon DynamoDB table.
/*!
  \sa describeTable()
  \param tableName: The DynamoDB table name.
  \param clientConfiguration: AWS client configuration.
  \return bool: Function succeeded.
*/
bool AwsDoc::DynamoDB::describeTable(const Aws::String &tableName,
                                     const Aws::Client::ClientConfiguration &clientConfiguration) {
    Aws::DynamoDB::DynamoDBClient dynamoClient(clientConfiguration);

    Aws::DynamoDB::Model::DescribeTableRequest request;
    request.SetTableName(tableName);

    const Aws::DynamoDB::Model::DescribeTableOutcome &outcome = dynamoClient.DescribeTable(
            request);

    if (outcome.IsSuccess()) {
        const Aws::DynamoDB::Model::TableDescription &td = outcome.GetResult().GetTable();
        std::cout << "Table name  : " << td.GetTableName() << std::endl;
        std::cout << "Table ARN   : " << td.GetTableArn() << std::endl;
        std::cout << "Status      : "
                  << Aws::DynamoDB::Model::TableStatusMapper::GetNameForTableStatus(
                          td.GetTableStatus()) << std::endl;
        std::cout << "Item count  : " << td.GetItemCount() << std::endl;
        std::cout << "Size (bytes): " << td.GetTableSizeBytes() << std::endl;

        const Aws::DynamoDB::Model::ProvisionedThroughputDescription &ptd = td.GetProvisionedThroughput();
        std::cout << "Throughput" << std::endl;
        std::cout << "  Read Capacity : " << ptd.GetReadCapacityUnits() << std::endl;
        std::cout << "  Write Capacity: " << ptd.GetWriteCapacityUnits() << std::endl;

        const Aws::Vector<Aws::DynamoDB::Model::AttributeDefinition> &ad = td.GetAttributeDefinitions();
        std::cout << "Attributes" << std::endl;
        for (const auto &a: ad)
            std::cout << "  " << a.GetAttributeName() << " (" <<
                      Aws::DynamoDB::Model::ScalarAttributeTypeMapper::GetNameForScalarAttributeType(
                              a.GetAttributeType()) <<
                      ")" << std::endl;
    }
    else {
        std::cerr << "Failed to describe table: " << outcome.GetError().GetMessage();
    }

    return outcome.IsSuccess();
}

// TableBasics encapsulates the Amazon DynamoDB service actions used in the examples.
// It contains a DynamoDB service client that is used to act on the specified table.
type TableBasics struct {
	DynamoDbClient *dynamodb.Client
	TableName      string
}



// TableExists determines whether a DynamoDB table exists.
func (basics TableBasics) TableExists() (bool, error) {
	exists := true
	_, err := basics.DynamoDbClient.DescribeTable(
		context.TODO(), &dynamodb.DescribeTableInput{TableName: aws.String(basics.TableName)},
	)
	if err != nil {
		var notFoundEx *types.ResourceNotFoundException
		if errors.As(err, &notFoundEx) {
			log.Printf("Table %v does not exist.\n", basics.TableName)
			err = nil
		} else {
			log.Printf("Couldn't determine existence of table %v. Here's why: %v\n", basics.TableName, err)
		}
		exists = false
	}
	return exists, err
}

    public static void describeDymamoDBTable(DynamoDbClient ddb,String tableName ) {

        DescribeTableRequest request = DescribeTableRequest.builder()
            .tableName(tableName)
            .build();

        try {
            TableDescription tableInfo = ddb.describeTable(request).table();
            if (tableInfo != null) {
                System.out.format("Table name  : %s\n", tableInfo.tableName());
                System.out.format("Table ARN   : %s\n", tableInfo.tableArn());
                System.out.format("Status      : %s\n", tableInfo.tableStatus());
                System.out.format("Item count  : %d\n", tableInfo.itemCount().longValue());
                System.out.format("Size (bytes): %d\n", tableInfo.tableSizeBytes().longValue());

                ProvisionedThroughputDescription throughputInfo = tableInfo.provisionedThroughput();
                System.out.println("Throughput");
                System.out.format("  Read Capacity : %d\n", throughputInfo.readCapacityUnits().longValue());
                System.out.format("  Write Capacity: %d\n", throughputInfo.writeCapacityUnits().longValue());

                List<AttributeDefinition> attributes = tableInfo.attributeDefinitions();
                System.out.println("Attributes");

                for (AttributeDefinition a : attributes) {
                    System.out.format("  %s (%s)\n", a.attributeName(), a.attributeType());
                }
            }

        } catch (DynamoDbException e) {
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
            System.exit(1);
        }
        System.out.println("\nDone!");
    }

Create the client.

// Create service client module using ES6 syntax.
import { DynamoDBClient } from "@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb";
// Set the AWS Region.
const REGION = "REGION"; //e.g. "us-east-1"
// Create an Amazon DynamoDB service client object.
const ddbClient = new DynamoDBClient({ region: REGION });
export { ddbClient };

Describe the table.

// Import required AWS SDK clients and commands for Node.js
import { DescribeTableCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb";
import { ddbClient } from "./libs/ddbClient.js";

// Set the parameters
export const params = { TableName: "TABLE_NAME" }; //TABLE_NAME

export const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await ddbClient.send(new DescribeTableCommand(params));
    console.log("Success", data);
    // console.log("Success", data.Table.KeySchema);
    return data;
  } catch (err) {
    console.log("Error", err);
  }
};
run();

// Load the AWS SDK for Node.js
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
// Set the region 
AWS.config.update({region: 'REGION'});

// Create the DynamoDB service object
var ddb = new AWS.DynamoDB({apiVersion: '2012-08-10'});

var params = {
  TableName: process.argv[2]
};

// Call DynamoDB to retrieve the selected table descriptions
ddb.describeTable(params, function(err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log("Error", err);
  } else {
    console.log("Success", data.Table.KeySchema);
  }
});

class Movies:
    """Encapsulates an Amazon DynamoDB table of movie data."""
    def __init__(self, dyn_resource):
        """
        :param dyn_resource: A Boto3 DynamoDB resource.
        """
        self.dyn_resource = dyn_resource
        self.table = None

    def exists(self, table_name):
        """
        Determines whether a table exists. As a side effect, stores the table in
        a member variable.

        :param table_name: The name of the table to check.
        :return: True when the table exists; otherwise, False.
        """
        try:
            table = self.dyn_resource.Table(table_name)
            table.load()
            exists = True
        except ClientError as err:
            if err.response['Error']['Code'] == 'ResourceNotFoundException':
                exists = False
            else:
                logger.error(
                    "Couldn't check for existence of %s. Here's why: %s: %s",
                    table_name,
                    err.response['Error']['Code'], err.response['Error']['Message'])
                raise
        else:
            self.table = table
        return exists

  # Determines whether a table exists. As a side effect, stores the table in
  # a member variable.
  #
  # @param table_name [String] The name of the table to check.
  # @return [Boolean] True when the table exists; otherwise, False.
  def exists?(table_name)
    table = Aws::DynamoDB::Table.new(table_name)
    table.load
    @table = table
  rescue Aws::DynamoDB::Errors::ResourceNotFoundException
    puts("Table #{table_name} doesn't exist. Let's create it.")
    false
  rescue Aws::Errors::ServiceError => e
    puts("Couldn't check for existence of #{table_name}. Here's why:")
    puts("\t#{e.code}: #{e.message}")
    raise
  else
    !@table.nil?
  end