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The Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3 API Reference Guide describes in detail all the API operations for the Amazon SDK for JavaScript version 3 (V3).

Creating the Amazon Lambda function

Configuring the SDK

First import the required Amazon SDK for JavaScript (v3) modules and commands: DynamoDBClient and the DynamoDB ScanCommand, and SNSClient and the Amazon SNS PublishCommand command. Replace REGION with the Amazon Region. Then calculate today's date and assign it to a parameter. Then create the parameters for the ScanCommand.Replace TABLE_NAME with the name of the table you created in the Create the Amazon resources section of this example.

The following code snippet shows this step. (See Bundling the Lambda function for the full example.)

"use strict";
// Load the required clients and commands.
const { DynamoDBClient, ScanCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb");
const { SNSClient, PublishCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-sns");

//Set the AWS Region.
const REGION = "REGION"; //e.g. "us-east-1"

// Get today's date.
const today = new Date();
const dd = String(today.getDate()).padStart(2, "0");
const mm = String(today.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, "0"); //January is 0!
const yyyy = today.getFullYear();
const date = yyyy + "-" + mm + "-" + dd;

// Set the parameters for the ScanCommand method.
const params = {
  // Specify which items in the results are returned.
  FilterExpression: "startDate = :topic",
  // Define the expression attribute value, which are substitutes for the values you want to compare.
  ExpressionAttributeValues: {
    ":topic": { S: date },
  },
  // Set the projection expression, which the the attributes that you want.
  ProjectionExpression: "firstName, phone",
  TableName: "TABLE_NAME",
};

Scanning the DynamoDB table

First create an async/await function called sendText to publish a text message using the Amazon SNS PublishCommand. Then, add a try block pattern that scans the DynamoDB table for employees with their work anniversary today, and then calls the sendText function to send these employees a text message. If an error occurs the catch block is called.

The following code snippet shows this step. (See Bundling the Lambda function for the full example.)

exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {
  // Helper function to send message using Amazon SNS.
  async function sendText(textParams) {
    try {
      const data = await snsclient.send(new PublishCommand(textParams));
      console.log("Message sent");
    } catch (err) {
      console.log("Error, message not sent ", err);
    }
  }
  try {
    // Scan the table to check identify employees with work anniversary today.
    const data = await dbclient.send(new ScanCommand(params));
    data.Items.forEach(function (element, index, array) {
      const textParams = {
        PhoneNumber: element.phone.N,
        Message:
          "Hi " +
          element.firstName.S +
          "; congratulations on your work anniversary!",
      };
      // Send message using Amazon SNS.
      sendText(textParams);
    });
  } catch (err) {
    console.log("Error, could not scan table ", err);
  }
};

Bundling the Lambda function

This topic describes how to bundle the mylambdafunction.js and the required Amazon SDK for JavaScript modules for this example into a bundled file called index.js.

Here is the complete browser script code for mylambdafunction.js.

"use strict";
// Load the required clients and commands.
const { DynamoDBClient, ScanCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb");
const { SNSClient, PublishCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-sns");

//Set the AWS Region.
const REGION = "REGION"; //e.g. "us-east-1"

// Get today's date.
const today = new Date();
const dd = String(today.getDate()).padStart(2, "0");
const mm = String(today.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, "0"); //January is 0!
const yyyy = today.getFullYear();
const date = yyyy + "-" + mm + "-" + dd;

// Set the parameters for the ScanCommand method.
const params = {
  // Specify which items in the results are returned.
  FilterExpression: "startDate = :topic",
  // Define the expression attribute value, which are substitutes for the values you want to compare.
  ExpressionAttributeValues: {
    ":topic": { S: date },
  },
  // Set the projection expression, which the the attributes that you want.
  ProjectionExpression: "firstName, phone",
  TableName: "TABLE_NAME",
};

// Create the client service objects.
const dbclient = new DynamoDBClient({ region: REGION });
const snsclient = new SNSClient({ region: REGION });

exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {
  // Helper function to send message using Amazon SNS.
  async function sendText(textParams) {
    try {
      const data = await snsclient.send(new PublishCommand(textParams));
      console.log("Message sent");
    } catch (err) {
      console.log("Error, message not sent ", err);
    }
  }
  try {
    // Scan the table to check identify employees with work anniversary today.
    const data = await dbclient.send(new ScanCommand(params));
    data.Items.forEach(function (element, index, array) {
      const textParams = {
        PhoneNumber: element.phone.N,
        Message:
          "Hi " +
          element.firstName.S +
          "; congratulations on your work anniversary!",
      };
      // Send message using Amazon SNS.
      sendText(textParams);
    });
  } catch (err) {
    console.log("Error, could not scan table ", err);
  }
};