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# Using the DynamoDB Service Level APIs
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The Dynamo Service Level APIs allow you to create, update and delete tables. You can also perform typical create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on items in a table using this API.

## Create a DynamoDB Client
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To create a DynamoDB client:

```
AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials,region);
```

## CRUD Operations
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### Save an Item
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To save an item to a DynamoDB table:

```
// Create a client
AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials,region);

// Define item attributes
Dictionary<string, AttributeValue> attributes = new Dictionary<string, AttributeValue>();

// Author is hash-key
attributes["Author"] = new AttributeValue { S = "Mark Twain" };
attributes["Title"] = new AttributeValue { S = "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" };
attributes["PageCount"] = new AttributeValue { N = "275" };
attributes["Price"] = new AttributeValue{N = "10.00"};
attributes["Id"] = new AttributeValue{N="10"};
attributes["ISBN"] = new AttributeValue{S="111-1111111"};

// Create PutItem request
PutItemRequest request = new PutItemRequest
{
    TableName = "Books",
    Item = attributes
};

// Issue PutItem request
var response = await client.PutItemAsync(request);
```

### Retrieve an Item
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To retrieve an item:

```
// Create a client
AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials,region);

Dictionary<string, AttributeValue> key = new Dictionary<string, AttributeValue>
{
    { "Id", new AttributeValue { N = "10" } }
};

// Create GetItem request
GetItemRequest request = new GetItemRequest
{
    TableName = "Books",
    Key = key,
};

// Issue request
var result = await client.GetItemAsync(request);

// View response
Console.WriteLine("Item:");
Dictionary<string, AttributeValue> item = result.Item;
foreach (var keyValuePair in item)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Author := {0}", item["Author"]);
    Console.WriteLine("Title := {0}", item["Title"]);
    Console.WriteLine("Price:= {0}", item["Price"]);
    Console.WriteLine("PageCount := {0}", item["PageCount"]);
}
```

### Update an Item
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To update an item:

```
// Create a client
AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials,region);

Dictionary<string, AttributeValue> key = new Dictionary<string, AttributeValue>
{
    { "Id", new AttributeValue { N = "10" } }
};

// Define attribute updates
Dictionary<string, AttributeValueUpdate> updates = new Dictionary<string, AttributeValueUpdate>();
// Add a new string to the item's Genres SS attribute
updates["Genres"] = new AttributeValueUpdate()
{
    Action = AttributeAction.ADD,
    Value = new AttributeValue { SS = new List<string> { "Bildungsroman" } }
};

// Create UpdateItem request
UpdateItemRequest request = new UpdateItemRequest
{
    TableName = "Books",
    Key = key,
    AttributeUpdates = updates
};

// Issue request
var response = await client.UpdateItemAsync(request);
```

### Delete an Item
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To delete an item:

```
// Create a client
AmazonDynamoDBClient client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials,region);

Dictionary<string, AttributeValue> key = new Dictionary<string, AttributeValue>
{
  { "Id", new AttributeValue { N = "10" } }
};

// Create DeleteItem request
DeleteItemRequest request = new DeleteItemRequest
{
  TableName = "Books",
  Key = key
};

// Issue request
var response = await client.DeleteItemAsync(request);
```

## Query and Scan
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To query and retrieve all books whose author is “Mark Twain”:

```
public void Query(AWSCredentials credentials, RegionEndpoint region) {
  using(var client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials, region)) {
    var queryResponse = await client.QueryAsync(new QueryRequest() {
      TableName = "Books",
      IndexName = "Author-Title-index",
      KeyConditionExpression = "Author = :v_Id",
      ExpressionAttributeValues = new Dictionary < string, AttributeValue > {
        {
          ":v_Id", new AttributeValue {
            S = "Mark Twain"
          }
        }
      }
    });
    queryResponse.Items.ForEach((i) = > {
      Console.WriteLine(i["Title"].S);
    });

  }
}
```

The scan example code below returns all books in our table:

```
public void Scan(AWSCredentials credentials, RegionEndpoint region) {
      using(var client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials, region)) {
              var queryResponse = client.Scan(new ScanRequest() {
                      TableName = "Books"
              });
              queryResponse.Items.ForEach((i) = > {
                      Console.WriteLine(i["Title"].S);
              });
      }
}
```