create-group¶

Description¶

Creates a new group in the specified user pool.

Calling this action requires developer credentials.

Synopsis¶

  create-group
--group-name <value>
--user-pool-id <value>
[--description <value>]
[--role-arn <value>]
[--precedence <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--group-name (string)

The name of the group. Must be unique.

--user-pool-id (string)

The user pool ID for the user pool.

--description (string)

A string containing the description of the group.

--role-arn (string)

The role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the group.

--precedence (integer)

A non-negative integer value that specifies the precedence of this group relative to the other groups that a user can belong to in the user pool. Zero is the highest precedence value. Groups with lower Precedence values take precedence over groups with higher or null Precedence values. If a user belongs to two or more groups, it is the group with the lowest precedence value whose role ARN is given in the user’s tokens for the cognito:roles and cognito:preferred_role claims.

Two groups can have the same Precedence value. If this happens, neither group takes precedence over the other. If two groups with the same Precedence have the same role ARN, that role is used in the cognito:preferred_role claim in tokens for users in each group. If the two groups have different role ARNs, the cognito:preferred_role claim isn’t set in users’ tokens.

The default Precedence value is null. The maximum Precedence value is 2^31-1 .

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To create a group

This example creates a group with a description.

Command:

aws cognito-idp create-group --user-pool-id us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa --group-name MyNewGroup --description "New group."

Output:

{
  "Group": {
      "GroupName": "MyNewGroup",
      "UserPoolId": "us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa",
      "Description": "New group.",
      "LastModifiedDate": 1548270073.795,
      "CreationDate": 1548270073.795
  }
}

To create a group with a role and precedence

This example creates a group with a description. It also includes a role and precedence.

Command:

aws cognito-idp create-group --user-pool-id us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa --group-name MyNewGroupWithRole --description "New group with a role." --role-arn arn:aws:iam::111111111111:role/MyNewGroupRole --precedence 2

Output:

{
  "Group": {
      "GroupName": "MyNewGroupWithRole",
      "UserPoolId": "us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa",
      "Description": "New group with a role.",
      "RoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:role/MyNewGroupRole",
      "Precedence": 2,
      "LastModifiedDate": 1548270211.761,
      "CreationDate": 1548270211.761
  }
}

Output¶

Group -> (structure)

The group object for the group.

GroupName -> (string)

The name of the group.

UserPoolId -> (string)

The user pool ID for the user pool.

Description -> (string)

A string containing the description of the group.

RoleArn -> (string)

The role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the group.

Precedence -> (integer)

A non-negative integer value that specifies the precedence of this group relative to the other groups that a user can belong to in the user pool. Zero is the highest precedence value. Groups with lower Precedence values take precedence over groups with higher ornull Precedence values. If a user belongs to two or more groups, it is the group with the lowest precedence value whose role ARN is given in the user’s tokens for the cognito:roles and cognito:preferred_role claims.

Two groups can have the same Precedence value. If this happens, neither group takes precedence over the other. If two groups with the same Precedence have the same role ARN, that role is used in the cognito:preferred_role claim in tokens for users in each group. If the two groups have different role ARNs, the cognito:preferred_role claim isn’t set in users’ tokens.

The default Precedence value is null.

LastModifiedDate -> (timestamp)

The date the group was last modified.

CreationDate -> (timestamp)

The date the group was created.

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