Improve/Fix documentation to correctly set "table name" for the Idempotency DynamoDB table for Powertool for v2

[Vadym79]

What were you searching in the docs?

In all examples for the v2 version (in preview) provided here Idempotency is configured like this:

Idempotency.config().withPersistenceStore(DynamoDBPersistenceStore.builder()
.withTableName(System.getenv("TABLE_NAME")).build()).configure();

where DynamoDB table name is retrieved from the environment variable with the name TABLE_NAME.

On the same documentation page, IaC example with AWS SAM to set this table name is defined in the environment variable IDEMPOTENCY_TABLE Lambda Function like this

IdempotencyFunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: Function
Handler: helloworld.App::handleRequest
Policies:
- DynamoDBCrudPolicy:
TableName: !Ref IdempotencyTable
Environment:
Variables:
IDEMPOTENCY_TABLE: !Ref IdempotencyTable

Is this related to an existing documentation section?

https://docs.powertools.aws.dev/lambda/java/preview/utilities/idempotency

How can we improve?

use environment variable with the name TABLE_NAME instead like this:
Environment:
Variables:
TABLE_NAME: !Ref IdempotencyTable

Got a suggestion in mind?

use environment variable with the name TABLE_NAME instead like this:
Environment:
Variables:
TABLE_NAME: !Ref IdempotencyTable

Acknowledgment

• I understand the final update might be different from my proposed suggestion, or refused.

[phipag]

Thanks for spotting this. We should make the usage of env variables more consistent.