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UpdateTimeToLive

Last update:
May 18, 2026

Description

This function enables or disables Time to Live (TTL) for a specified table.
For more information, see UpdateTimeToLive.

Category

History

ColdFusion (2021 release): Added this function.

Syntax

serviceHandle.updateTimeToLive(requestParameters)

Parameters

See the request parameters of UpdateTimeToLive.

Example

<cfscript> 
   cred = { 
        "credentialAlias" : "myalias", 
        "vendorName" : "AWS", 
        "region" : "us-east-2", 
        "secretAccessKey" : "xxxxx", 
        "accessKeyId" : "xxxx" 
   } 
    config = { 
        "serviceName" = "DYNAMODB" 
    } 
    dynamo = getCloudService(cred, config) 
 
    tableName="SessionData" 
 
    expirationLocalDate = DateAdd("s", "30", now()); 
    utcExpirationdate = dateConvert("local2utc", expirationLocalDate) 
    expirationEpochTime = utcExpirationdate.getTime() 
 
    structPutItem = { 
        "TableName": "#tableName#", 
        "Item":{ 
            "username": "user", 
            "sessionid": "00012345", 
            "expirationTime": "#expirationEpochTime#" 
        }, 
        "ReturnValues": "ALL_OLD" 
    } 
 
    dynamo.putItem(structPutItem) 
     
    updateTimeToLiveStruct={ 
        "TableName": "#tableName#", 
        "TimeToLiveSpecification": {  
            "AttributeName": "expirationTime", 
            "Enabled": TRUE 
        } 
    } 
 
    updateTimeToLiveResponse=dynamo.updateTimeToLive(updateTimeToLiveStruct) 
  
    writeDump(updateTimeToLiveResponse) 
</cfscript>

Output

Figure: UpdateTimeToLive output
UpdateTimeToLive output

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