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Amazon Cognito - Admin Update User Attributes

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Updates the specified user's attributes, including developer attributes, as an administrator. Works on any user.

For custom attributes, you must prepend the custom: prefix to the attribute name.

In addition to updating user attributes, this API can also be used to mark phone and email as verified.

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Objective-C
#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <CkoAuthAws.h>
#import <CkoJsonObject.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>

BOOL success = NO;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

CkoRest *rest = [[CkoRest alloc] init];

CkoAuthAws *authAws = [[CkoAuthAws alloc] init];
authAws.AccessKey = @"AWS_ACCESS_KEY";
authAws.SecretKey = @"AWS_SECRET_KEY";
// Don't forget to change the region to your particular region. (Also make the same change in the call to Connect below.)
authAws.Region = @"us-west-2";
authAws.ServiceName = @"cognito-idp";
// SetAuthAws causes Chilkat to automatically add the following headers: Authorization, X-Amz-Date
[rest SetAuthAws: authAws];

// URL: https://cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
BOOL bTls = YES;
int port = 443;
BOOL bAutoReconnect = YES;
// Use the same region as specified above.
success = [rest Connect: @"cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: port] tls: bTls autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@%d",@"ConnectFailReason: ",[rest.ConnectFailReason intValue]);
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON:
// Generate Code to Create JSON

// The following JSON is sent in the request body.

// {
//     "UserAttributes": [
//          {
//            "Name": "email_verified",
//            "Value": "true"
//          },
//          {
//            "Name": "email",
//            "Value": "matt@example.com"
//          }
//        ],
//      "UserPoolId": "us-west-2_yt6WzO3SA",
//      "Username": "Matt"
// }
// 

CkoJsonObject *json = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
[json UpdateString: @"UserAttributes[0].Name" value: @"email_verified"];
[json UpdateString: @"UserAttributes[0].Value" value: @"true"];
[json UpdateString: @"UserAttributes[1].Name" value: @"email"];
[json UpdateString: @"UserAttributes[1].Value" value: @"matt@example.com"];
[json UpdateString: @"UserPoolId" value: @"us-west-2_yt6WzO3SA"];
[json UpdateString: @"Username" value: @"Matt"];

[rest AddHeader: @"Content-Type" value: @"application/x-amz-json-1.0"];
[rest AddHeader: @"X-Amz-Target" value: @"AWSCognitoIdentityProviderService.AdminUpdateUserAttributes"];
[rest AddHeader: @"Accept-Encoding" value: @"identity"];

CkoStringBuilder *sbRequestBody = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[json EmitSb: sbRequestBody];
CkoStringBuilder *sbResponseBody = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
success = [rest FullRequestSb: @"POST" uriPath: @"/" requestBody: sbRequestBody responseBody: sbResponseBody];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

int respStatusCode = [rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue];
NSLog(@"%@%d",@"response status code = ",respStatusCode);
if (respStatusCode != 200) {
    NSLog(@"%@%d",@"Response Status Code = ",respStatusCode);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Response Header:");
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.ResponseHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Response Body:");
    NSLog(@"%@",[sbResponseBody GetAsString]);
    return;
}

CkoJsonObject *jsonResponse = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
[jsonResponse LoadSb: sbResponseBody];

jsonResponse.EmitCompact = NO;
NSLog(@"%@",[jsonResponse Emit]);

// If successful, the response status code is 200, and the response body is empty JSON "{}"