CharacterCreator-startup-and-initialisation

gistfile1.cs

// Setup our credentials which will use our Cognito identity pool to hand us short-term session credentials,
// giving us access to what we have provided access to with our IAM role policies, in this case, access to our
// DynamoDB table.
credentials = new CognitoAWSCredentials(cognitoIdentityPoolString, RegionEndpoint.USEast1);
credentials.GetIdentityIdAsync(delegate(AmazonCognitoIdentityResult<string> result)
{
    if (result.Exception != null)
    {
        Debug.LogError("exception hit: " + result.Exception.Message);
    }

    // Create a DynamoDB client, passing in our credentials from Cognito.
    var ddbClient = new AmazonDynamoDBClient(credentials, RegionEndpoint.USEast1);

    resultText.text += ("\n*** Retrieving table information ***\n");

    // Create a DescribeTableRequest to get information about our table, and ensure we can access it.
    var request = new DescribeTableRequest
    {
        TableName = @"CharacterCreator"
    };

    ddbClient.DescribeTableAsync(request, (ddbresult) =>
    {
        if (result.Exception != null)
        {
            resultText.text += result.Exception.Message;
            Debug.Log(result.Exception);
            return;
        }

        var response = ddbresult.Response;
        
        // Debug information
        TableDescription description = response.Table;
        resultText.text += ("Name: " + description.TableName + "\n");
        resultText.text += ("# of items: " + description.ItemCount + "\n");
        resultText.text += ("Provision Throughput (reads/sec): " + description.ProvisionedThroughput.ReadCapacityUnits + "\n");
        resultText.text += ("Provision Throughput (reads/sec): " + description.ProvisionedThroughput.WriteCapacityUnits + "\n");

    }, null);

    // Set our _client field to the dynamoDB client.
    _client = ddbClient;

    // Fetch any stored characters from the DB
    FetchAllCharactersFromAWS();

});