I recently started experimenting with AWS AppSync but I had some questions around AWS Cognito.
I would like for users to be able to authenticate with Facebook but I need their profile picture, name and email as data for my public user profiles in my app. So far, I noticed Cognito integrates with Facebook Auth but it does not allow access to the user information and this info does not get saved in a DynamoDB table.
My question is, how can I create a new User in DynamoDB when Cognito receives a new sign in, or return an existing user/id when the user already exists in the db.
I was trying to achieve the same a few weeks ago.
After reading the docs for hours, I realised that Cognito may not help us in regards to the data that comes back from FB or how to save it.
I ended up doing the following:
(1) Using FB-SDK, pulled in the user data.
(2) Invoked a Lambda function that saved this data (like FB_id,etc) to DynamoDB.
(3) If user logged in again, their FB_id (or email) was used to check against DynamoDB entries to retrieve their data.
If Cognito is able to help us and I missed it somehow, I would love to know.
Happy Coding!