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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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import { AuthAws, JsonObject, Rest, StringBuilder } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  const rest = new Rest();

  const authAws = new AuthAws();
  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/
  const bTls = true;
  const port = 443;
  const bAutoReconnect = true;
  // Use the same region as specified above.
  try {
    await rest.connectAsync('cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com', port, bTls, bAutoReconnect);
  } catch {
    console.log(`ConnectFailReason: ${rest.connectFailReason}`);
    console.log(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"
  // }
  // 

  const json = new JsonObject();
  json.updateString('UserAttributes[0].Name', 'email_verified');
  json.updateString('UserAttributes[0].Value', 'true');
  json.updateString('UserAttributes[1].Name', 'email');
  json.updateString('UserAttributes[1].Value', 'matt@example.com');
  json.updateString('UserPoolId', 'us-west-2_yt6WzO3SA');
  json.updateString('Username', 'Matt');

  rest.addHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-amz-json-1.0');
  rest.addHeader('X-Amz-Target', 'AWSCognitoIdentityProviderService.AdminUpdateUserAttributes');
  rest.addHeader('Accept-Encoding', 'identity');

  const sbRequestBody = new StringBuilder();
  json.emitSb(sbRequestBody);
  const sbResponseBody = new StringBuilder();
  try {
    await rest.fullRequestSbAsync('POST', '/', sbRequestBody, sbResponseBody);
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  const respStatusCode = rest.responseStatusCode;
  console.log(`response status code = ${respStatusCode}`);
  if (respStatusCode !== 200) {
    console.log(`Response Status Code = ${respStatusCode}`);
    console.log('Response Header:');
    console.log(rest.responseHeader);
    console.log('Response Body:');
    console.log(sbResponseBody.getAsString());
    return;
  }

  const jsonResponse = new JsonObject();
  jsonResponse.loadSb(sbResponseBody);

  jsonResponse.emitCompact = false;
  console.log(jsonResponse.emit());

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