Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

UpdateGroup

Updates the specified group with the specified attributes.

Note

Amazon Cognito evaluates AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you must use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you must grant yourself the corresponding IAM permission in a policy.

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Request Syntax


{
   "Description": "string",
   "GroupName": "string",
   "Precedence": number,
   "RoleArn": "string",
   "UserPoolId": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Description

A string containing the new description of the group.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 2048.

Required: No

GroupName

The name of the group.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\p{L}\p{M}\p{S}\p{N}\p{P}]+

Required: Yes

Precedence

The new precedence value for the group. For more information about this parameter, see CreateGroup.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: No

RoleArn

The new role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the group. This is used for setting the cognito:roles and cognito:preferred_role claims in the token.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: arn:[\w+=/,.@-]+:[\w+=/,.@-]+:([\w+=/,.@-]*)?:[0-9]+:[\w+=/,.@-]+(:[\w+=/,.@-]+)?(:[\w+=/,.@-]+)?

Required: No

UserPoolId

The ID of the user pool.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 55.

Pattern: [\w-]+_[0-9a-zA-Z]+

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "Group": { 
      "CreationDate": number,
      "Description": "string",
      "GroupName": "string",
      "LastModifiedDate": number,
      "Precedence": number,
      "RoleArn": "string",
      "UserPoolId": "string"
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Group

The group object for the group.

Type: GroupType object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalErrorException

This exception is thrown when Amazon Cognito encounters an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameterException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service encounters an invalid parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotAuthorizedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service can't find the requested resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyRequestsException

This exception is thrown when the user has made too many requests for a given operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400