I have been involved with a client project to help the client launch a new social network for university students to engage with each other to do sports. Amongst other things, users can: Arrange activities and ask to join others’ activities (like a basketball match or to run in the park). There’s private messaging. Users …
How I built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and serverless Read More »
I have been working with a US client to build a first-of-its-kind app for managing medical consents. It falls under HIPAA compliance and it’s paramount that we do not allow unauthorized access to user data. As part of the app, we have built an admin tool that will be used by admin staff from the …
TL;DR To make an AppSync DynamoDB resolver throw exceptions on conditional check errors, we need to check $context.error in the response mapping template ourselves. Like this: #if ( $ctx.error ) #if ( $ctx.error.type.equals(“DynamoDB:ConditionalCheckFailedException”) ) $util.error(“your error message”) #else $util.error($ctx.error.message, $ctx.error.type) #end #end $utils.toJson($context.result) And now, the longer version. The problem AppSync lets us perform DynamoDB …
AppSync: how to error on DynamoDB conditional check failures Read More »
Whilst working on a client project, I ran into an interesting problem with AppSync which I couldn’t find an answer after a lot of googling. I hope this article can save you the same pain should you run into the same problem. The problem is that when you have a nullable nested field that you …
AppSync: skipping nullable nested resolvers by returning early Read More »
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