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GetId - Amazon Cognito Federated Identities

GetId

Generates (or retrieves) IdentityID. Supplying multiple logins will create an implicit linked account.

This is a public API. You do not need any credentials to call this API.

Request Syntax

{ "AccountId": "string", "IdentityPoolId": "string", "Logins": { "string" : "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.

AccountId

A standard AWS account ID (9+ digits).

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 15.

Pattern: \d+

Required: No

IdentityPoolId

An identity pool ID in the format REGION:GUID.

Type: String

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

Pattern: [\w-]+:[0-9a-f-]+

Required: Yes

Logins

A set of optional name-value pairs that map provider names to provider tokens. The available provider names for Logins are as follows:

  • Facebook: graph.facebook.com

  • Amazon Cognito user pool: cognito-idp.<region>.amazonaws.com/<YOUR_USER_POOL_ID>, for example, cognito-idp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/us-east-1_123456789.

  • Google: accounts.google.com

  • Amazon: www.amazon.com

  • Twitter: api.twitter.com

  • Digits: www.digits.com

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Maximum number of 10 items.

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

Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 50000.

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "IdentityId": "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.

IdentityId

A unique identifier in the format REGION:GUID.

Type: String

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

Pattern: [\w-]+:[0-9a-f-]+

Errors

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

ExternalServiceException

An exception thrown when a dependent service such as Facebook or Twitter is not responding

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalErrorException

Thrown when the service encounters an error during processing the request.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameterException

Thrown for missing or bad input parameter(s).

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceededException

Thrown when the total number of user pools has exceeded a preset limit.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotAuthorizedException

Thrown when a user is not authorized to access the requested resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

Thrown when a user tries to use a login which is already linked to another account.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

Thrown when the requested resource (for example, a dataset or record) does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyRequestsException

Thrown when a request is throttled.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

GetId

The following example shows a GetId request for an unauthenticated identity. The request body has been edited for readability and may not match the stated content-length.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 CONTENT-TYPE: application/x-amz-json-1.1 CONTENT-LENGTH: 252 X-AMZ-TARGET: com.amazonaws.cognito.identity.model.AWSCognitoIdentityService.GetId HOST: <endpoint> X-AMZ-DATE: 20140730T232759Z { "AccountId": "123456789012", "IdentityPoolId": "us-east-1:177a950c-2c08-43f0-9983-28727EXAMPLE" }

Sample Response

1.1 200 OK x-amzn-requestid: ff1ca798-b930-4b81-9ef3-c02e770188af date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:03:36 GMT CONTENT-TYPE: application/x-amz-json-1.1 content-length: 152 { "IdentityId": "us-east-1:88859bc9-0149-4183-bf10-39e36EXAMPLE" }

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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