Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeIdentityPool

Gets details about a particular identity pool, including the pool name, ID description, creation date, and current number of users.

You must use AWS developer credentials to call this operation.

Request Syntax


{
   "IdentityPoolId": "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.

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

Response Syntax


{
   "AllowClassicFlow": boolean,
   "AllowUnauthenticatedIdentities": boolean,
   "CognitoIdentityProviders": [ 
      { 
         "ClientId": "string",
         "ProviderName": "string",
         "ServerSideTokenCheck": boolean
      }
   ],
   "DeveloperProviderName": "string",
   "IdentityPoolId": "string",
   "IdentityPoolName": "string",
   "IdentityPoolTags": { 
      "string" : "string" 
   },
   "OpenIdConnectProviderARNs": [ "string" ],
   "SamlProviderARNs": [ "string" ],
   "SupportedLoginProviders": { 
      "string" : "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.

AllowClassicFlow

Enables or disables the Basic (Classic) authentication flow. For more information, see Identity Pools (Federated Identities) Authentication Flow in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide.

Type: Boolean

AllowUnauthenticatedIdentities

TRUE if the identity pool supports unauthenticated logins.

Type: Boolean

CognitoIdentityProviders

A list representing an Amazon Cognito user pool and its client ID.

Type: Array of CognitoIdentityProvider objects

DeveloperProviderName

The "domain" by which Cognito will refer to your users.

Type: String

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

Pattern: [\w._-]+

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-]+

IdentityPoolName

A string that you provide.

Type: String

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

Pattern: [\w\s+=,.@-]+

IdentityPoolTags

The tags that are assigned to the identity pool. A tag is a label that you can apply to identity pools to categorize and manage them in different ways, such as by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria.

Type: String to string map

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

Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

OpenIdConnectProviderARNs

The ARNs of the OpenID Connect providers.

Type: Array of strings

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

SamlProviderARNs

An array of Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) of the SAML provider for your identity pool.

Type: Array of strings

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

SupportedLoginProviders

Optional key:value pairs mapping provider names to provider app IDs.

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 128.

Value Pattern: [\w.;_/-]+

Errors

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

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

NotAuthorizedException

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

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

DescribeIdentityPool

The following examples show a request and response for the DescribeIdentityPool operation. The request and response bodies have been edited for readability and may not match the stated content-length values.

Sample Request



POST / HTTP/1.1
CONTENT-TYPE: application/json
CONTENT-LENGTH: 224
X-AMZ-TARGET: com.amazonaws.cognito.identity.model.AWSCognitoIdentityService.DescribeIdentityPool
HOST: <endpoint>
X-AMZ-DATE: 20140804T203833Z
AUTHORIZATION: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<credential>, SignedHeaders=content-type;content-length;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=<signature>

{
    "IdentityPoolId": "us-east-1:177a950c-2c08-43f0-9983-28727EXAMPLE"
}

Sample Response



1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-requestid: c5cc0ad5-c604-455a-87ee-cb830b22341a
date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:38:33 GMT
content-type: application/json
content-length: 367

{
    "AllowUnauthenticatedIdentities": true,
    "IdentityPoolId": "us-east-1:177a950c-2c08-43f0-9983-28727EXAMPLE",
    "IdentityPoolName": "MyIdentityPool",
    "SupportedLoginProviders":
    {
        "accounts.google.com": "123456789012.apps.googleusercontent.com",
        "graph.facebook.com": "7346241598935555",
        "www.amazon.com": "amzn1.application-oa2-client.188a56d827a7d6555a8b67a5d"
    }
}