DynamoDB putitem in NodeJs - arrays of objects - node.js

Question

I'm trying to set up a small api from AWS Lambda to DynamoDB and I am having trouble figuring out if and how I can write an array of objects into a key.
I have an object like
{
"teamName": "Team Awesome",
"members": [
{
"email": "person-1#example.com",
"name": "Bob"
},
{
"email": "person-2#example.com",
"name": "Alice"
}
]
}
The members array is giving me issues, in the docs it looks like it can be done considering the list types, but there is just no example how HOW to do it, and I am running out of ways to try it.
So is it possible to write something in this format at all and how do you in that case do it?
Example code - what do I put at ???
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var dynamodb = new AWS.DynamoDB();
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
var tableName = "GDCCompetition";
var datetime = new Date().getTime().toString();
DynamoDB.putItem({
"TableName": tableName,
"Item": {
"datetime": {
"N": datetime
},
"teamName": {
"S": event.teamName
},
"members": ???
}
});
}

Answer 1

The documentation is not really obvious, but there is a thing called DocClient, you can pass a usual JS object to it and it will do all the parsing and transformation into AWS object (with all the types). You can use it like this:
var AWS = require("aws-sdk");
var DynamoDB = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();
var params = {
TableName: "MyTable",
Item: {
"teamName": "Team Awesome",
"members": [
{
"email": "person-1#example.com",
"name": "Bob"
},
{
"email": "person-2#example.com",
"name": "Alice"
}
]
}
};
DynamoDB.put(params, function (err) {
if (err) {
return throw err;
}
//this is put
});

Answer 2

You could convert the object to DynamoDb record first
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var tableName = "GDCCompetition";
var datetime = new Date().getTime().toString();
const members = [
{
"email": "person-1#example.com",
"name": "Bob"
},
{
"email": "person-2#example.com",
"name": "Alice"
}
];
const marshalled = AWS.DynamoDB.Converter.marshall({ members });
const params = {
"TableName": tableName,
"Item": {
"datetime": {
"N": datetime
},
"teamName": {
"S": event.teamName
},
"members": marshalled.members,
},
}
AWS.DynamoDB.putItem(params, function (err) {
if (err) {
return throw err;
}
});