title: Amazon DynamoDB getting items as a string
body: <p>I am encountering difficulty in retrieving data from my table. I am using Amazon Dynamo DB and I have successfully populated my table. When I scan the table or use getItem, the returning information is of type AttributeValue. I have looked through the documentation and I can't find how you should process an AttributeValue to get it to become an int or string. The example code of scan from the Amazon Website has the information returned in a Dictionary object, but it is a dictionary with strings mapped to Attribute Values. Do you know of anyway to query a Dynamo DB table and store the result in something where strings are mapped to string or strings are mapped to integers?</p>