As I start this off, I don't even know how to figure out how to ask the question of what I need to do next, but my steps seem to be:

1. Make an API post request when a visitor hits the site
2. Make that POST request trigger a LAMBDA function
3. Use the Lambda function to increment the visitor counter number in DynamoDB

Now that I typed it out, it seems easier. I had some more grandiose plans including logging IP of visitor to do a pseudo unique visit count, but that's really a little much for what I want to do here. I have a lot more to go and I want to focus more on the CI/CD aspect of all this. Maybe more in the future.

I think that the plan is to "store" a variable in DynamoDB, get it, increment by 1, then edit the table entry to increment by 1.

I tried this code against the test I had set up in the last article:

 
    test = table.query(
           ProjectionExpression="id",
           KeyConditionExpression=Key('id').eq('frankie'),
    )
     

However, it just returns:

 
    [{'id': 'frankie'}]
     

I switched it from a query to a get because we just need 1 single item. Looks like this:

 
    get = table.get_item(
           Key={'id': 'frankie', 'type': 'cat'}
    )

    itemGot = get['Item']
    name = itemGot['id']

    print(name)
     

And it returns:

 
    frankie
     

Now I can adapt this to the "counter" I want to do.
I created a new table and got it all going using this code:

 
    import boto3
    from boto3.dynamodb.conditions import Key

    dynamodb = boto3.resource('dynamodb')


    table=dynamodb.Table('visitorCounter')

    get = table.get_item(
           Key={'countId': '1', 'countNo': '1'}
    )

    itemGot = get['Item']
    visitorNo = int(itemGot['countNos'])

    print("pre incremented", visitorNo)

    visitorNo += 1

    print("incremented", visitorNo)

    table.put_item(
    Item={
        'countId': '1',
        'countNo': '1',
        'countNos': str(visitorNo)
    })

    get = table.get_item(
           Key={'countId': '1', 'countNo': '1'}
    )

    itemGot = get['Item']
    visitorNo = int(itemGot['countNos'])

    print("post table add", visitorNo)
     

This is sloppy but it works. I'll clean the code up for the actual Lambda function. Now that I have the update going, I just need to do the POST API call and have API Gateway trigger Lamda.