Project Structure
Insert Products into DynamoDB
Before you develop the application code, you must insert the products into DynamoDB. To do this, please download/copy this code to a file on your machine: insert_products.py
The location of this file does not matter, but you can keep it in the root of your Chalice project. Open the file and edit line 24 by inserting your DynamoDB table’s name:
table = boto3.resource('dynamodb').Table('chalice-demo-table')
Using the command line, run the insert_products.py file:
$ python insert_products.py
This will insert all the products to your DynamoDB table and you can confirm this using the CLI or the console.
Project Structure
Files
Navigate to the root of your project directory and create a directory called chalicelib and navigate to it.
$ mkdir chalicelib
$ cd chalicelib
Create the following files in the subdirectory: __int__.py, api_endpoints.py, and util.py.
$ touch __init__.py api_endpoints.py util.py
Next, you will want to create a folder called models. For this E-commerce application, you will need a model for orders and order items.
$ cd models
$ touch order.py order_items.py
Please copy code for order.py and order_items.py before moving on.
Policies
Navigate back to the root directory and go to the .chalice subdirectory. In this subdirectory, create folder called policies.
Navigate to this newly created folder and create the following files: policy-dev.json and trigger-dev.json.
$ mkdir policies
$ cd policies
$ touch policy-dev.json trigger-dev.json
NOTE: While Chalice does have the capability to detect application code and create the necessary policies, this E-commerce application requires more fine grained access for its components. We will be using these newly created files to insert those policies later on.
Final Structure
You will want the project structure to look similar to this:
