Smaws_Client_Kinesis.GetShardIterator
val request :
Smaws_Lib.Context.t ->
get_shard_iterator_input ->
(get_shard_iterator_output,
[> Smaws_Lib.Protocols.AwsJson.error
| `AccessDeniedException of access_denied_exception
| `InvalidArgumentException of invalid_argument_exception
| `ProvisionedThroughputExceededException of
provisioned_throughput_exceeded_exception
| `ResourceNotFoundException of resource_not_found_exception ])
Stdlib.result
Gets an Amazon Kinesis shard iterator. A shard iterator expires 5 minutes after it is returned to the requester.
When invoking this API, you must use either the StreamARN
or the StreamName
parameter, or both. It is recommended that you use the StreamARN
input parameter when you invoke this API.
A shard iterator specifies the shard position from which to start reading data records sequentially. The position is specified using the sequence number of a data record in a shard. A sequence number is the identifier associated with every record ingested in the stream, and is assigned when a record is put into the stream. Each stream has one or more shards.
You must specify the shard iterator type. For example, you can set the ShardIteratorType
parameter to read exactly from the position denoted by a specific sequence number by using the AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER
shard iterator type. Alternatively, the parameter can read right after the sequence number by using the AFTER_SEQUENCE_NUMBER
shard iterator type, using sequence numbers returned by earlier calls to PutRecord
, PutRecords
, GetRecords
, or DescribeStream
. In the request, you can specify the shard iterator type AT_TIMESTAMP
to read records from an arbitrary point in time, TRIM_HORIZON
to cause ShardIterator
to point to the last untrimmed record in the shard in the system (the oldest data record in the shard), or LATEST
so that you always read the most recent data in the shard.
When you read repeatedly from a stream, use a GetShardIterator
request to get the first shard iterator for use in your first GetRecords
request and for subsequent reads use the shard iterator returned by the GetRecords
request in NextShardIterator
. A new shard iterator is returned by every GetRecords
request in NextShardIterator
, which you use in the ShardIterator
parameter of the next GetRecords
request.
If a GetShardIterator
request is made too often, you receive a ProvisionedThroughputExceededException
. For more information about throughput limits, see GetRecords
, and Streams Limits in the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide.
If the shard is closed, GetShardIterator
returns a valid iterator for the last sequence number of the shard. A shard can be closed as a result of using SplitShard
or MergeShards
.
GetShardIterator
has a limit of five transactions per second per account per open shard.