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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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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()

local authAws = chilkat.AuthAws.new()
authAws.access_key = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.secret_key = "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.service_name = "cognito-idp"
-- SetAuthAws causes Chilkat to automatically add the following headers: Authorization, X-Amz-Date
rest:set_auth_aws(authAws)

-- URL: https://cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
local bTls = true
local port = 443
local bAutoReconnect = true
-- Use the same region as specified above.
local success = rest:connect("cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com", port, bTls, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print("ConnectFailReason: " .. rest.connect_fail_reason)
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- 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"
-- }
--

local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
json:update_string("UserAttributes[0].Name", "email_verified")
json:update_string("UserAttributes[0].Value", "true")
json:update_string("UserAttributes[1].Name", "email")
json:update_string("UserAttributes[1].Value", "matt@example.com")
json:update_string("UserPoolId", "us-west-2_yt6WzO3SA")
json:update_string("Username", "Matt")

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

local sbRequestBody = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
json:emit_sb(sbRequestBody)
local sbResponseBody = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
success = rest:full_request_sb("POST", "/", sbRequestBody, sbResponseBody)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

local respStatusCode = rest.response_status_code
print("response status code = " .. respStatusCode)
if respStatusCode ~= 200 then
    print("Response Status Code = " .. respStatusCode)
    print("Response Header:")
    print(rest.response_header)
    print("Response Body:")
    print(sbResponseBody:get_as_string())
    return
end

local jsonResponse = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
jsonResponse:load_sb(sbResponseBody)

jsonResponse.emit_compact = false
print(jsonResponse:emit())

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