Gets an Amazon Kinesis shard iterator. A shard iterator expires 5 minutes after it is returned to the requester.
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.
See also: AWS API Documentation
See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.
get-shard-iterator
--stream-name <value>
--shard-id <value>
--shard-iterator-type <value>
[--starting-sequence-number <value>]
[--timestamp <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
--stream-name
(string)
The name of the Amazon Kinesis data stream.
--shard-id
(string)
The shard ID of the Kinesis Data Streams shard to get the iterator for.
--shard-iterator-type
(string)
Determines how the shard iterator is used to start reading data records from the shard.
The following are the valid Amazon Kinesis shard iterator types:
AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER - Start reading from the position denoted by a specific sequence number, provided in the value
StartingSequenceNumber
.AFTER_SEQUENCE_NUMBER - Start reading right after the position denoted by a specific sequence number, provided in the value
StartingSequenceNumber
.AT_TIMESTAMP - Start reading from the position denoted by a specific time stamp, provided in the value
Timestamp
.TRIM_HORIZON - Start reading at the last untrimmed record in the shard in the system, which is the oldest data record in the shard.
LATEST - Start reading just after the most recent record in the shard, so that you always read the most recent data in the shard.
Possible values:
AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER
AFTER_SEQUENCE_NUMBER
TRIM_HORIZON
LATEST
AT_TIMESTAMP
--starting-sequence-number
(string)
The sequence number of the data record in the shard from which to start reading. Used with shard iterator type AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER and AFTER_SEQUENCE_NUMBER.
--timestamp
(timestamp)
The time stamp of the data record from which to start reading. Used with shard iterator type AT_TIMESTAMP. A time stamp is the Unix epoch date with precision in milliseconds. For example,
2016-04-04T19:58:46.480-00:00
or1459799926.480
. If a record with this exact time stamp does not exist, the iterator returned is for the next (later) record. If the time stamp is older than the current trim horizon, the iterator returned is for the oldest untrimmed data record (TRIM_HORIZON).
--cli-input-json
| --cli-input-yaml
(string)
Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton
. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml
.
--generate-cli-skeleton
(string)
Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input
, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json
. Similarly, if provided yaml-input
it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml
. If provided with the value output
, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.
See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.
Note
To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.
Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .
To obtain a shard iterator
The following get-shard-iterator
example uses the AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER
shard iterator type and generates a shard iterator to start reading data records exactly from the position denoted by the specified sequence number.
aws kinesis get-shard-iterator \
--stream-name samplestream \
--shard-id shardId-000000000001 \
--shard-iterator-type LATEST
Output:
{
"ShardIterator": "AAAAAAAAAAFEvJjIYI+3jw/4aqgH9FifJ+n48XWTh/IFIsbILP6o5eDueD39NXNBfpZ10WL5K6ADXk8w+5H+Qhd9cFA9k268CPXCz/kebq1TGYI7Vy+lUkA9BuN3xvATxMBGxRY3zYK05gqgvaIRn94O8SqeEqwhigwZxNWxID3Ej7YYYcxQi8Q/fIrCjGAy/n2r5Z9G864YpWDfN9upNNQAR/iiOWKs"
}
For more information, see Developing Consumers Using the Kinesis Data Streams API with the AWS SDK for Java in the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide.
ShardIterator -> (string)
The position in the shard from which to start reading data records sequentially. A shard iterator specifies this position using the sequence number of a data record in a shard.