Amplify-js: (fix) fetch is not defined error

[Q00]

Describe the bug
I am using cognito with serverless-http app.
I encountered some error about Reference error in Cloudwatch when I request my serverless app.

ReferenceError: fetch is not defined
at Client.request (/var/task/node_modules/amazon-cognito-identity-js/lib/Client.js:55:5)
at /var/task/node_modules/amazon-cognito-identity-js/lib/CognitoUser.js:313:21
at AuthenticationHelper.getLargeAValue (/var/task/node_modules/amazon-cognito-identity-js/lib/AuthenticationHelper.js:85:7)
at CognitoUser.authenticateUserDefaultAuth (/var/task/node_modules/amazon-cognito-identity-js/lib/CognitoUser.js:291:26)
at CognitoUser.authenticateUser (/var/task/node_modules/amazon-cognito-identity-js/lib/CognitoUser.js:252:19)
at login (/var/task/src/serverless.js:277:17)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/task/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
at next (/var/task/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)
at Route.dispatch (/var/task/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/task/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

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4. See error

Expected behavior

So I tried to fix this error to edit amazon_cognito_identity-js in node_modules.
But it can not be applied, so I carefully change above these commit.
https://github.com/Q00/amazon-cognito-identity-js/commit/6a907ddcbee687495bf9c3a2286480606a454b05

After change, finally I get intended response like this

message: 'User does not exist.',
code: 'UserNotFoundException',
time: 2019-01-20T19:31:41.735Z,
requestId: '0364989e-1cea-11e9-a193-affb587e0cbd',
statusCode: 400,
retryable: false,
retryDelay: 28.517921067981966 

I am junior with cognito so that I do not understand your intention perfectly.
But these commit can help me deploy and service app without error.
https://github.com/Q00/amazon-cognito-identity-js/commit/6a907ddcbee687495bf9c3a2286480606a454b05

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• OS: mac os

Additional context

403 this issue can not help me so I tried to edit this repo directly.

I want to help people who get related this error.
What can I do for this error?

You can turn on the debug mode to provide more info for us by setting window.LOG_LEVEL = 'DEBUG'; in your app.

[elorzafe]

I just tried this on node.js

global.fetch = require('node-fetch');
var AmazonCognitoIdentity = require('amazon-cognito-identity-js');

var authenticationData = {
 Username: 'xxxxxxxx',
 Password: 'xxxxxxxx*',
};
var authenticationDetails = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.AuthenticationDetails(authenticationData);
var poolData = {
 UserPoolId: 'xx-xxxx-x_xxxxxxxxx', // Your user pool id here
 ClientId: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' // Your client id here
};
var userPool = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUserPool(poolData);
var userData = {
 Username: 'xxxxxxx',
 Pool: userPool
};
var cognitoUser = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUser(userData);
cognitoUser.authenticateUser(authenticationDetails, {
 onSuccess: function (result) {
  var accessToken = result.getAccessToken().getJwtToken();
  console.log({ accessToken });
 },

 onFailure: function (err) {
  alert(err.message || JSON.stringify(err));
 },

});

I installed node-fetch on my node.js app

[elorzafe]

@Q00 closing the issue for now. Feel free to reopen in case you need more help

[chaitanya11]

How to solve it in Typescript?

[lfades]

@chaitanya11 For Typescript you can do this:

(global as any).fetch = require('node-fetch');