things

Creates, updates, deletes or gets a thing resource or lists things in a region

Overview

Name	things
Type	Resource
Description	Resource Type definition for AWS::IoT::Thing
Id	aws.iot.things

Fields

Name	Datatype	Description
id	string
arn	string
attribute_payload	object
thing_name	string
region	string	AWS region.

For more information, see AWS::IoT::Thing.

Methods

Name	Accessible by	Required Params
create_resource	INSERT	region
delete_resource	DELETE	data__Identifier, region
update_resource	UPDATE	data__Identifier, data__PatchDocument, region
list_resources	SELECT	region
get_resource	SELECT	data__Identifier, region

SELECT examples

Gets all things in a region.

SELECT
region,
id,
arn,
attribute_payload,
thing_name
FROM aws.iot.things
WHERE region = 'us-east-1';

Gets all properties from an individual thing.

SELECT
region,
id,
arn,
attribute_payload,
thing_name
FROM aws.iot.things
WHERE region = 'us-east-1' AND data__Identifier = '<ThingName>';

INSERT example

Use the following StackQL query and manifest file to create a new thing resource, using stack-deploy.

Required Properties

/*+ create */
INSERT INTO aws.iot.things (
 AttributePayload,
 ThingName,
 region
)
SELECT 
'{{ AttributePayload }}',
 '{{ ThingName }}',
'{{ region }}';

All Properties

/*+ create */
INSERT INTO aws.iot.things (
 AttributePayload,
 ThingName,
 region
)
SELECT 
 '{{ AttributePayload }}',
 '{{ ThingName }}',
 '{{ region }}';

Manifest

version: 1
name: stack name
description: stack description
providers:
  - aws
globals:
  - name: region
    value: '{{ vars.AWS_REGION }}'
resources:
  - name: thing
    props:
      - name: AttributePayload
        value:
          Attributes: {}
      - name: ThingName
        value: '{{ ThingName }}'

DELETE example

/*+ delete */
DELETE FROM aws.iot.things
WHERE data__Identifier = '<ThingName>'
AND region = 'us-east-1';

Permissions

To operate on the things resource, the following permissions are required:

Create

iot:CreateThing,
iot:DescribeThing

Delete

iot:DeleteThing,
iot:DescribeThing

List

iot:ListThings

Read

iot:DescribeThing

Update

iot:UpdateThing,
iot:DescribeThing