title: AWS CLI: Error parsing parameter '--item': Expected: '=', received: '"' for input:
body: <p>I am trying to simply insert one item using json as input file. I am running command on Windows Cmd prompt:</p>
  
  <pre><code>aws2 dynamodb put-item --table-name testCLI --item file://C:\Temp\DynamoDB\item.json
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>table testCLI has 2 attributes - ID and Value</p>
  
  <p>File item.json:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"{\"ID\": {\"N\":\"2\"}, \"Value\": {\"S\": \"From json file with escape characters\"}}"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Error parsing parameter '--item': Expected: '=', received: '"' for input:
    "{\"ID\": {\"N\":\"2\"}, \"Value\": {\"S\": \"From json file with escape characters\"}}"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>aws2 --version
  
  aws-cli/2.0.0dev3 Python/3.7.5 Windows/10 botocore/2.0.0dev2
  </code></pre>