Cognito authorizing a user through AWS lambda function - amazon-web-services

Question

I use AWS Cognito and need to authorize a user through a lambda function. I have seen examples online and when I try to apply them, the Cognito authentication does not run and gets somehow skipped:
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
const AmazonCognitoIdentity = require('amazon-cognito-identity-js');
global.fetch = require("node-fetch");
const CognitoUserPool = AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUserPool;
var AuthenticationDetails = AmazonCognitoIdentity.AuthenticationDetails;
var CognitoUser = AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUser;
var USER_POOL_ID = 'my_pool_id';
var CLIENT_ID = 'my_client_id';
var idToken = '';
exports.handler = async (event, callback) => {
var email = event['username'];
var password = event['password'];
var authenticationDetails = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.AuthenticationDetails({
Username: email,
Password: password
});
const poolData = {
UserPoolId: USER_POOL_ID,
ClientId: CLIENT_ID
};
const userPool = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUserPool(poolData);
var userData = {
Username: email,
Pool: userPool
}
var cognitoUser = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUser(userData);
cognitoUser.authenticateUser(authenticationDetails, {
onSuccess: (result) => {
var accessToken = result.getAccessToken().getJwtToken();
console.log(result);
console.log(accessToken);
idToken = result.idToken.jwtToken;
console.log(idToken);
callback(null, accessToken);
},
onFailure: (err) => {
console.log(err);
idToken = err;
callback(err);
},
});
console.log("cognitoUser after: ", cognitoUser);
};
I can see the last console.log printed in the logs, but lambda does not seem to wait for the request resolution of cognitoUser.authenticateUser, as none of the console.logs inside onSuccess or onFailure get printed.

Answer 1

Here are couple of options
Remove async from exports.handler = async (event, callback).
Keep async and wrap authenticateUser as Promise and use await
const res = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
cognitoUser.authenticateUser(authenticationDetails, {
onSuccess: (result) => {
var accessToken = result.getAccessToken().getJwtToken();
console.log(result);
console.log(accessToken);
idToken = result.idToken.jwtToken;
console.log(idToken);
resolve(accessToken);
},
onFailure: (err) => {
console.log(err);
idToken = err;
reject(err);
},
});
}
Note: Code has not been tested.