Let's see how a user can get the details of a specified function definition from AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Example
Get the details of a function definition named as insert_employee_record in database employee.
Problem Statement: Use boto3 library in Python to get the details of a specified function definition from AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Approach/Algorithm to solve this problem
Step 1: Import boto3 and botocore exceptions to handle exceptions.
Step 2: database_name and function_name are the required parameters. It fetches the definition of a given function_name in a given database.
Step 3: Create an AWS session using boto3 lib. Make sure region_name is mentioned in the default profile. If it is not mentioned, then explicitly pass the region_name while creating the session.
Step 4: Create an AWS client for glue.
Step 5: Call get_user_defined_function and pass the database_name as DatabaseName and function_name as FunctionName parameter.
Step 6: It returns the definition of a given function. If it doesn't find the given function, it throws an error.
Step 7: Handle the generic exception if something went wrong while checking the function.
Example Code
The following code fetches the definition of a given function −
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
def get_function_definition(database_name, function_name):
session = boto3.session.Session()
glue_client = session.client('glue')
try:
response = glue_client.get_user_defined_function(DatabaseName=database_name, FunctionName=function_name)
return response
except ClientError as e:
raise Exception("boto3 client error in get_function_definition: " + e.__str__())
except Exception as e:
raise Exception("Unexpected error in get_function_definition: " + e.__str__())
a = get_function_definition('employee', 'insert_employee_record')
print(a)Output
{
'UserDefinedFunctions':{
'FunctionName': 'insert_employee_record',
'DatabaseName': 'employee',
'ClassName': 'InsertEmployee',
'OwnerName': 'string',
'OwnerType': 'USER'|'ROLE'|'GROUP',
'CreateTime': datetime(2021,03,15),
'ResourceUris':[
{
'ResourceType': 'JAR'|'FILE'|'ARCHIVE',
'Uri': 'string'
},
],
}
}