Action to Store the Auth0 user id in a remote system doesnt work..?

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Hello,

I’m attempting to use the Action that Stores the Auth0 user id in a remote system.

However, it doesn’t work. The error I get is simply:

“Error! API Error. Please contact Auth0 if error persists.”
Below this message, the second error message just shows up as a blank object: “Error: {}”

Here is my test code, which is completely based off of the example given by Auth0:

const axios = require("axios");

exports.onExecutePostUserRegistration = async (event) => {

  await axios.post("postgres://<my_environment_name>:<my_password>@john.db.elephantsql.com/<database name>/<table name>", { params: { email: event.user.email }});

};

I have set up my database exactly as per the instructions noted here. It is a web-based Elephant PostgresSQL database.

Note that the step to Create a user and send to that same external database works just fine for me (under Authentication, non Action- based). So, does the problem lie somewhere within the Actions API?

Can anyone else get this to work?

Thanks and Regards,

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I’m trying this integration right now… but haven’t gotten it to work yet…

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