Hi, I am a newbie. How can I create multiple dynamoDB tables with SST, and how can I pass the name of these tables?

Would you mind pointing out which section can answer my questions？

The table name is auto generated using a combination of stageName, stackName and the provided tableName. So, suppose you create a notes table as per this example -

new Table(this, "Notes", {
  fields: {
    userId: TableFieldType.STRING,
    noteId: TableFieldType.STRING,
  },
  primaryIndex: { partitionKey: "noteId", sortKey: "userId" },
});

if your stage name is

dev

, your app name in

sst.json

is

sample-api

and your stack name is

my-stack

then the generated table name would be

dev-sample-api-my-stack-Notes

. This is done to ensure any collisons across other stacks and stages and apps.

Thank you for your detailed explanation. So I can create as many tables as I want by creating different Table instances, but how can I refer to these tables later in the API? For example, in the guide

this.api = new sst.Api(this, "Api", {
      defaultFunctionProps: {
        environment: {
          TABLE_NAME: table.tableName,
        },
      },
      routes: {
        "POST   /notes": "src/create.main",
      },
    });

it uses

table.tableName

, how can refer to different tables by their names?

oh that’s simple.

const table1 = new Table(this, "Notes", {
  fields: {
    userId: TableFieldType.STRING,
    noteId: TableFieldType.STRING,
  },
  primaryIndex: { partitionKey: "noteId", sortKey: "userId" },
});

oh that's simple.
const table2 = new Table(this, "Notes2", {
  fields: {
    userId: TableFieldType.STRING,
    noteId: TableFieldType.STRING,
  },
  primaryIndex: { partitionKey: "noteId", sortKey: "userId" },
});

const api = new sst.Api(this, "Api", {
      defaultFunctionProps: {
        environment: {
          NOTES1_TABLE: table1.tableName,
          NOTES2_TABLE: table2.tableName,
        },
      },
      routes: {
        "POST   /notes": "src/create.main",
      },
    });

Amazing! Thank you so much ❤️

the environment is just a plain object. you can have any string as the key and it can use any string as the value.