Metadata

Part of the model declaration is the __metadata__ attribute, which is a dict that configures the Model.meta_ object. Models will inherit and merge the __metadata__ fields from their ancestors. Keys that begin with an underscore will not be merged. For example:

class Vehicle(Model):
    __metadata__ = {
        '_name': 'all-vehicles',
        'throughput': {
            'read': 10,
            'write': 2,
        }
    }

class Car(Vehicle):
    pass

>>> print Car.__metadata__
{'throughput': {'read': 10, 'write': 2}}

Below is a list of all the values that may be set in the __metadata__ attribute of a model.

Key	Type	Description
_name	str	The name of the DynamoDB table (defaults to class name)
_abstract	bool	If True, no DynamoDB table will be created for this model (useful if you just want a class to inherit from)
throughput	dict	The table read/write throughput (defaults to {‘read’: 5, ‘write’: 5})
global_indexes	list	A list of GlobalIndex objects