✅ - Keep getting: No Cognito Identity pool provided for unauthenticated access

[celest briar]

New to react and AWS. Have setup a new api project using amplify-cli. I need a public API (unauthenticated). So, I setup amplify with amplify configure + init & added api and auth, set it up for unauthenticated access. This is my schema:

  id: ID!
  deviceID: String!
  location: Location!
  expiration: AWSTimestamp!
}

type Location {
  lon: Float!
  lat: Float!
}```

I did push this successfully, however, whenever I call it from the react client using:

await API.graphql({
query: mutations.createMeditationLocation,
variables: {
input: {
deviceID: deviceID,
location: { lat: 1.5, lon: 1.5 },
expiration: expiration,
},
},
authMode: GRAPHQL_AUTH_MODE.AWS_IAM,
});

Im getting 'WARN  [WARN] 01:32.394 GraphQLAPI - ensure credentials error No Cognito Identity pool provided for unauthenticated access'

When I go to the GrapQL API Console and try to run this query:

query MyQuery {
listMeditationLocations {
items {
deviceID
}
}
}

I get:  Not Authorized to access listMeditationLocations on type Query as error message.

Any pointers on how to solve this problem? Thanks in advance!

[celest briar]

If anyone has the same issue, the following acticle fixed it for me: https://itnext.io/unauthenticated-access-to-aws-for-ios-apps-using-aws-amplify-cb87222eb5d

Basically executing 'amplify remove auth' followed by 'amplify add analytics' fixed the auth issue I had.

[celest briar]

The remaining question is: how to get permission for the root user to run queries using the grapql api console?

[cerulean pine]

what root user?

[lapis saddle]

@celest briar if you're having issues authorizing queries in the AppSync console, check out and try following this section of our docs on using IAM Authorization within the AppSync Console.

https://docs.amplify.aws/cli/graphql/authorization-rules/#use-iam-authorization-within-the-appsync-console

[celest briar]

What I currently did to solve it (now I can access it with the console, using apiKey): type MeditationLocation @model @aws_iam @aws_api_key @auth( rules: [{allow: public, provider: iam, operations:[create, read, update, delete]}, {allow: public, operations:[create, read, update, delete]} ])

[light depot]

✅ - Keep getting: No Cognito Identity pool provided for unauthenticated access