Merge pull request #3 from jon-frame/patch-1

Created alternate function

Triggering-Lambda-from-SQS/sqs_lambda_function.py

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+from datetime import datetime
+import json
+import os
+import boto3
+
+DYNAMODB_TABLE = os.environ['DYNAMODB_TABLE']
+
+dynamodb = boto3.resource('dynamodb')
+
+def lambda_handler(event, context):
+    # Count items in the Lambda event 
+    no_messages = str(len(event['Records']))
+    print("Found " +no_messages +" messages to process.")
+
+    for message in event['Records']:
+
+        print(message)
+
+        # Write message to DynamoDB
+        table = dynamodb.Table(DYNAMODB_TABLE)
+
+        response = table.put_item(
+            Item={
+                'MessageId': message['messageId'],
+                'Body': message['body'],
+                'Timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat()
+            }
+        )
+        print("Wrote message to DynamoDB:", json.dumps(response))