Contents

# Copyright 2011-2012 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). You
# may not use this file except in compliance with the License. A copy of
# the License is located at
#
#     http://aws.amazon.com/apache2.0/
#
# or in the "license" file accompanying this file. This file is
# distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF
# ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific
# language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

module AWS
  class DynamoDB

    # Use this class to wrap strings that you want Amazon DynamoDB
    # to store as a binary attribute.  This can reduce the size
    # of larger attributes to save on storage costs.
    #
    #   table = AWS::DynamoDB.new.tables['data-table']
    #   table.hash_key = { 'id' => :string }
    #   table.range_key = { 'position' => :number }
    #
    #   # put an item with a binary data attribute
    #   table.items.create(
    #     'id' => 'abc',
    #     'position' => 5,
    #     'data' => AWS::DynamoDB::Binary.new('abc')
    #   )
    #
    class Binary < String; end

  end
end

Version data entries

9 entries across 9 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
aws-sdk-1.8.0	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.7.1	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.7.0	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.6.9	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.6.8	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.6.7	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.6.6	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.6.5	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb
aws-sdk-1.6.4	lib/aws/dynamo_db/binary.rb