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Felini500
Felini500

Reputation: 189

how to get a custom attribute in a user pool using aws-android-sdk

I can connect to aws user pool using aws-android-sdk. I can get standard attributes such as e-mail, given name etc... but IMPOSSIBLE to get a custom attribute. Here is the function used:

GetDetailsHandler detailsHandler = new GetDetailsHandler() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(CognitoUserDetails cognitoUserDetails) {
            // Extract user details
        }

        @Override
        public void onFailure(Exception exception) {
        }
    };

Upvotes: 4

Views: 14477

Answers (6)

hkarask
hkarask

Reputation: 583

I had to enable my custom attribute under the App Client registration > Attribute read and write permissions

Upvotes: 0

John Christian
John Christian

Reputation: 85

I had troubles reading/writing custom attributes until i deleted the user pool and created the attributes when creating a new pool (rather than doing it after as I did for the original pool).

Upvotes: 0

oolionoo
oolionoo

Reputation: 113

You must mark the custom attribute as readable. See below: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=248330

Upvotes: 2

skarfa
skarfa

Reputation: 327

Adding to @Sergey Kovalev

cognitoUserDetails has CognitoUserAttributes and CognitoUserSettings

cognitoUserDetails.getAttributes(); // returns UserAttributes 
cognitoUserDetails.getSettings(); //returns UserSettings

You have to call getAttributes() once again to get the Hash Mapped attributes values.

To retrieve custom:preferred_name use the following code.

Map mDetails = cognitoUserDetails.getAttributes().getAttributes();
String name = mDetails.get("custom:preferred_name").toString();

Check the AWS User Pools Console > Pool Details to get clarity on the attribute names.

Required attributes name, phone_number
Alias attributes preferred_username
Custom attributes custom:company, custom:location

I have used this in Android.

Upvotes: 4

Ionut Trestian
Ionut Trestian

Reputation: 5751

Basically, with Cognito on an authenticated user (CognitoUser object) you can call the methods for retrieving (getUserAttributes) and updating attributes (updateAttributes). Note that if you defined a custom attribute such as preferred_name for example, you need to reference such as below when using it: 

custom:preferred_name

Upvotes: 0

Sergey Kovalev
Sergey Kovalev

Reputation: 9411

You should use getAttributes() of CognitoUserAttributes class to get user attributes.

Take a look at documentation http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSAndroidSDK/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/mobileconnectors/cognitoidentityprovider/CognitoUserAttributes.html

and source code

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-android/blob/master/aws-android-sdk-cognitoidentityprovider/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/mobileconnectors/cognitoidentityprovider/CognitoUserAttributes.java

Upvotes: 0

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