Unable to pass demographic to Analytics.updateEndpoint()

So as a preface to the issue I mentioned in the title, I wanted to first mention another issue I saw in the docs for Analytics. The updateEndpoint() docs seem to say to pass in an object like so for user attributes:

Analytics.updateEndpoint({
  // User attributes
  userAttributes: {
    interests: ['football', 'basketball', 'AWS']
    // ...
  }
})

However this led to UserAttributes being undefined when inspecting the debug logs with Amplify.Logger.LOG_LEVEL = 'DEBUG'. I was only able to get it to work when using UserAttributes instead of userAttributes.

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So the current issue I’m facing is that I can’t seem to get the demographic passed no matter what I do. The docs mention to do something like:

Analytics.updateEndpoint({
  demographic: {
    appVersion: 'xxxxxxx', // The version of the application associated with the endpoint.
    locale: 'xxxxxx', // The endpoint locale in the following format: The ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code, followed by an underscore, followed by an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 value
    make: 'xxxxxx', // The manufacturer of the endpoint device, such as Apple or Samsung.
    model: 'xxxxxx', // The model name or number of the endpoint device, such as iPhone.
    modelVersion: 'xxxxxx', // The model version of the endpoint device.
    platform: 'xxxxxx', // The platform of the endpoint device, such as iOS or Android.
    platformVersion: 'xxxxxx', // The platform version of the endpoint device.
    timezone: 'xxxxxx' // The timezone of the endpoint. Specified as a tz database value, such as Americas/Los_Angeles.
  }
})

However, no matter what I pass to updateEndpoint, it doesn’t seem to get actually get sent in the request. As a simple example, let’s say I just wanted to pass in an appVersion (though I tried several other things as well like make, model, etc). I have tried doing different variations with casing like:

Analytics.updateEndpoint({
  ...
  demographic: {
    appVersion: '0.1.0'
  }
})

and

Analytics.updateEndpoint({
  ...
  Demographic: {
    appVersion: '0.1.0'
  }
})

and

Analytics.updateEndpoint({
  ...
  Demographic: {
    AppVersion: '0.1.0'
  }
})

…etc

but none of them seemed to work. No matter what I pass to the demographic section, I always see something like this in the logs when testing on the iOS simulator:

[22:04:57]   "[DEBUG] 04:57.128 AWSPinpointProvider - updateEndpoint with params: ": Object {
[22:04:57]     "ApplicationId": "...",
[22:04:57]     "EndpointId": "...",
[22:04:57]     "EndpointRequest": Object {
[22:04:57]       "Address": "...",
[22:04:57]       "Attributes": undefined,
[22:04:57]       "ChannelType": "APNS",
[22:04:57]       "Demographic": Object {
[22:04:57]         "AppVersion": "ios/12.1",
[22:04:57]         "Make": "iPhone",
[22:04:57]         "Model": "iPhone 6/7/8 plus",
[22:04:57]         "ModelVersion": "12.1",
[22:04:57]         "Platform": "ios",
[22:04:57]       },
[22:04:57]       "EffectiveDate": "...",
[22:04:57]       "OptOut": undefined,
[22:04:57]       "RequestId": undefined,
[22:04:57]       "User": Object {
[22:04:57]         "UserAttributes": Object {
[22:04:57]           "email": Array [
[22:04:57]             "...",
[22:04:57]           ],
[22:04:57]           "email_verified": Array [
[22:04:57]             "...",
[22:04:57]           ],
[22:04:57]           "name": Array [
[22:04:57]             "...",
[22:04:57]           ],
[22:04:57]           "sub": Array [
[22:04:57]             "...",
[22:04:57]           ],
[22:04:57]         },
[22:04:57]         "UserId": "...",
[22:04:57]       },
[22:04:57]     },
[22:04:57]   },

Notice that the Demographic object in there ignores the app version I pass to it. Additionally, if I try to pass in other things like locale or whatever, it still always sticks to this same exact Demographic object passed in to the request. It seems like it just doesn’t use my Demographic object I pass to it no matter what.

This is v1.1.8. Let me know if I can provide any other info, and any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[saadq]

I don’t remember when I fixed this, but I believe I just updated my version of aws-amplify and it just started working.

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