title: What is the recommended way to remove data type descriptors from a DynamoDB response?
body: <p>DynamoDB includes a data type descriptor for each element in query response, as shown below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"Item": { 
      "M" : {
          "Age": {"N": "8"},
          "Name": {"S": "Fido"},
          "Vaccinations": {
              "M": {
                  "Rabies": {
                      "L": [
                          {"S": "2009-03-17"},
                          {"S": "2011-09-21"},
                          {"S": "2014-07-08"}
                      ]
                  },
                  "Distemper": {"S": "2015-10-13"}
              }
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to strip all of these descriptors ("S", "L", "M", etc), so that it looks like the next example, before I <code>JSON.stringify</code> the data.</p>
  
  <pre><code>"Item": {
      "Age": "8",
      "Name": "Fido",
      "Vaccinations": {
          "Rabies": [
              "2009-03-17",
              "2011-09-21",
              "2014-07-08"
           ]
           "Distemper": "2015-10-13"
       }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there are standard (or recommended) method for doing this?</p>