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@nrfcloud/api-gateway-authorizer
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Authorizes requests to the nRF Cloud API with Cognito Tokens.
It fetches the Cognito Identity ID for the user pool token.
The user information will be on event.requestContext.authorizer
:
{
cognitoIdentityId: 'us-east-1:...',
'cognito:username': 'alex.doe@example.com',
email: 'alex.doe@example.com'
}
Set these environment variables:
user_pool_url=https://cognito-idp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/us-east-1_fdiBa7JSO
identity_pool_id=us-east-1:c00e1327-dfc2-4aa7-a484-8ca366d11a68
username=user@example.com
password=changeme
client_id=bmoej5j8t187jmnumu00jrt2v
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=changeme
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=changeme
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