Why Records: [] is empty when i consume data from kinesis stream by python script?

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i am trying to consume data using python script from kinesis data stream which is created successfully and data is produced or streamed to it successfully , but when running consumer script in python :

import boto3
import json
from datetime import datetime
import time

my_stream_name = 'stream_name'

kinesis_client = boto3.client('kinesis', region_name='us-east-1')

response = kinesis_client.describe_stream(StreamName=my_stream_name)

my_shard_id = response['StreamDescription']['Shards'][0]['ShardId']

shard_iterator = kinesis_client.get_shard_iterator(StreamName=my_stream_name,
                                                      ShardId=my_shard_id,
                                                      ShardIteratorType='LATEST')

my_shard_iterator = shard_iterator['ShardIterator']

record_response = kinesis_client.get_records(ShardIterator=my_shard_iterator,
                                              Limit=2)

while 'NextShardIterator' in record_response:
    record_response = kinesis_client.get_records(ShardIterator=record_response['NextShardIterator'],
                                                  Limit=2)

    print(record_response)

    # wait for 5 seconds
    time.sleep(5)

But the output of the message data is empty ('Records': []):

{'Records': [], 'NextShardIterator': 'AAAAAAAAAAFFVFpvvveOquLUe7WO9nZAcYNQdcS6f6a+YGrrrjZo1gULcu/ZYxC7AB+xVlUhgL9UFPrQ22qmcQa6iIsmuKWl26buBk3utXlVqiGuDUYSgqMOtkp0Y7pJwa6N/I0fYfl2PLTXp5Qz8+5ZYuTW1KDt+PeSU3992bwgdOm7744cxcSnYFaQuHqfa0vLlaRBTOACVz4fwjggUBN01WdsoEjKmgtfNmuHSA7s9LLNzAapMg==', 'MillisBehindLatest': 0, 'ResponseMetadata': {'RequestId': 'e451dd27-c867-cf3d-be83-edbe95e9da9f', 'HTTPStatusCode': 200, 'HTTPHeaders': {'x-amzn-requestid': 'e451dd27-c867-cf3d-be83-edbe95e9da9f', 'x-amz-id-2': 'ClSlC3gRJuEqL9YJcHgC2N/TLSv56o+6406ki2+Zohnfo/erFVMDpPqkEWT+XAeeHXCdhYBbnOeZBPyesbXnVs45KQG78eRU', 'date': 'Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:23:21 GMT', 'content-type': 'application/x-amz-json-1.1', 'content-length': '308'}, 'RetryAttempts': 0}}
2 Answers
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Hi.

Is it printed if it is printed once before entering the while block?
This implementation does not seem to log the first shard iterator.

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iwasa
answered 2 years ago
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Why don't you print out response (for debugging purposes)? That way you can see if hasmoreshards is true or not. Also, amazon recommends a different api now in their documentation. It says this at the top: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeStream.html

response = kinesis_client.describe_stream(StreamName=my_stream_name)

answered 2 years ago

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