How should I use AWS Amplify instead of cy.request on the beforeEach in order to authenticate users?

Hi!

How should I use aws amplify on the beforeEach in order to authenticate users? I am asking this because I am going to need the token to make other AWS requests later.

import Amplify, { Auth } from 'aws-amplify';
import aws_exports from './aws-exports.js';
Amplify.configure(aws_exports);

describe('TEST', function () {
  context('Querying', function () {
    beforeEach(function () {
      //
    })


    it('It should...', function () {
      Auth.signIn('[e-mail]', 'EasyToGuess$333')
        .then(user => {
          console.log('===> user', user);

          let session = Auth.currentSession();

          console.log('===> session', session);
        })
        .catch(err => console.log('===> err', err));
    })
  })
})

[christopherfrance]

You can confirm a user from the AWS CLI:

cy.exec(`aws cognito-idp admin-confirm-sign-up \
  --region us-east-1 \
  --user-pool-id ${config.cognito.USER_POOL_ID} \
  --username ${userEmail}`)
    console.log(`Confirmed ${userEmail}`)

Not sure about handling 2fa.

[brian-mann]

You need to return Auth.signIn because it’s a promise and the test must be returned a promise to know to await the results of it.

Is aws-amplify a node only lib? Are you having issues with this? You’ve posted this issue but haven’t specified what the actual problem is… ?

If aws-amplify is a node only lib you can simply use cy.task to talk to the background node process and implement it there… something like cy.task('login', user, pass) and then do the same stuff you need to do in node and that’s it. Tasks are already promise aware so you just need to return the promise and be done with it.

If the promise rejects the command will automatically fail, etc. Same for succeeding.