How do I send msg.payload as the MessageBody to SQS? about node-red-contrib-aws HOT 6 CLOSED

Based on the Rekognition sample I managed to sort out this issue by adding a func before the DynamoDB node that sets the msg.Item to msg.payload. The Item field needs to be empty in the DynamoDB node.

It's working like a charm now :)

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Can you provide an example (export to clipboard), that way I can see exactly what you're trying to do.

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I guess I understand that QAnders is trying to use msg.payload to feed the nodes like dynamoDB, but he should be using msg.Item per example for Dynamodb. Example:

msg.Item={
"myattribute1": {"S": msg.payload.bla},
"myattribute2": {"S": "abc"},
"myattribute3" : {"S" : "def"}
};

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Problem seems to be that it is not possible to send a variable (=object value) as the message to SQS. It is sending the object/variable name as a string regardless of me trying to format it as JSON, msg.Item={} is the same, it is sent as a string, not as the object.

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It will be easier to help if you can provide an example (exported)

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I also have the same issue. I'd like to feed a DynamoDB node's PutItem operation with a dynamic input coming from another node. I did not manage to figure out what to put into the Item field. Whatever I enter it tries to parse as a string. E.g. if I put msg.payload, I would expect it to use the value of the msg.payload, but it tries to parse the "msg.payload" string itself, so I get an error:
"SyntaxError: Unexpected token m in JSON at position 0"

I think @QAnders has the same problem.

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