Add Support for Java Time API in DynamoDB

[belugabehr]

Describe the feature

Add support for storing Java Time API objects, in particular: Instant and ZonedDateTime

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/master/aws-java-sdk-dynamodb/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/dynamodbv2/datamodeling/DynamoDBTypeConvertedTimestamp.java

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/master/aws-java-sdk-dynamodb/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/dynamodbv2/datamodeling/StandardTypeConverters.java

Use Case

When dealing with Date, which is not immutable, my code looks something like:

public Date getDeletedDate() { return (null == deletedDate) ? null : new Date(deletedDate.getTime()); }

public void setDeletedDate(Date deletedDate) {
  this.deletedDate = (null == deletedDate) ? null : new Date(deletedDate.getTime());
}

Proposed Solution

Add support Java Time API which includes immutable objects and is over-all a better solution in Java.

Other Information

No response

Acknowledgements

• [ ] I may be able to implement this feature request
• [ ] This feature might incur a breaking change

AWS Java SDK version used

1

JDK version used

11

Operating System and version

Amazon Linux 2

[debora-ito]

Hi @belugabehr you might have noticed this already, but Instant and ZonedDateTime are already supported in the SDK V2 DynamoDB Enhanced Client.

The team is focused in working in V2 features right now, so this request would have very low priority. Because of this, and because it's already supported in V2, I'll go ahead and close this.

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[belugabehr]

@debora-ito Thanks. I've moved my focus to SDK V2 based on your advice.