aws-test-api

This is a test project for me to play around with writing AWS Lambdas and storing data in dynamoDb

Technologies used

Node-js, Serverless framework, DynamoDB

Instructions

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Lessons learned

Custom authorizer

Attributes added onto context of policy can not be of type array or object. This will result in a obscure error returning a 500 with {message: null}. Spent quite a lot of time in figuring this out.

//NOT ALLOWED
authResponse.context = {"roles":["role","role"]};

//ALLOWED
authResponse.context = {"roles":"role;role"};