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Visual Basic 6.0

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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest

Dim authAws As New ChilkatAuthAws
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
success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

' URL: https://cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim port As Long
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
' Use the same region as specified above.
success = rest.Connect("cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print "ConnectFailReason: " & rest.ConnectFailReason
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' 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"
' }
' 

Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = json.UpdateString("UserAttributes[0].Name","email_verified")
success = json.UpdateString("UserAttributes[0].Value","true")
success = json.UpdateString("UserAttributes[1].Name","email")
success = json.UpdateString("UserAttributes[1].Value","matt@example.com")
success = json.UpdateString("UserPoolId","us-west-2_yt6WzO3SA")
success = json.UpdateString("Username","Matt")

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/x-amz-json-1.0")
success = rest.AddHeader("X-Amz-Target","AWSCognitoIdentityProviderService.AdminUpdateUserAttributes")
success = rest.AddHeader("Accept-Encoding","identity")

Dim sbRequestBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
Dim sbResponseBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim respStatusCode As Long
respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
Debug.Print "response status code = " & respStatusCode
If (respStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim jsonResponse As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

jsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
Debug.Print jsonResponse.Emit()

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