Support for returning user email and phone number in @aws-sdk/client-identitystore

[boweihan]

Currently the User type in identitystore only has UserId and UserName.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/v3/latest/clients/client-identitystore/interfaces/user.html

Is there a plan to return other user information such as phone number and email?

[RanVaknin]

Hi @boweihan ,

Since the SDKs clients are automatically generated from their respective service models, the SDKs cannot "add" more fields to return because there is no other data to return.

Unlike the SDKs, the service teams like AWS IAM Identity Center do not have a public facing outlet like Github, so there is no way of knowing if there is a plan to add those fields in the future.

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve, but users often use their email address as their username:

User name and email address uniqueness

When working in IAM Identity Center, users must be uniquely identifiable. IAM Identity Center implements a user name that is the primary identifier for your users. Although most people set the user name equal to a user’s email address, IAM Identity Center and the SAML standard do not require this. However, a large percentage of SAML-based applications use an email address as the unique identifier for users. They obtain this from assertions that a SAML identity provider sends during authentication. Such applications depend upon the uniqueness of email addresses for each user. As such, IAM Identity Center allows you to specify something other than an email address for user sign-in. IAM Identity Center requires that all user names and email addresses for your users are non-NULL and unique.

Otherwise, if you are trying to get info about users logged into your system, you might want to look at AWS Cognito's claim based auth. With Cognito you can get all this info about your signed users (if they choose to give you that info).

I hope this answers your question.
Thanks
Ran~

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