Pre-populate environment variables with comples types

[larschrjensen]

I was very happy to see the ability to prepopulate connection references and enviroment variables in the build tools for Azure Devops (as described here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/conn-ref-env-variables-build-tools). For me this works great with simple string-based values, but can this method also be used to prepopulate environment variables with more complex type such as JSON. I can't seem to get a grip on how to accomplish this.

Any with any experiences?

{
  "EnvironmentVariables": [
    {
      "SchemaName": "tst_Deployment_env",
      "Value": ""
    }
}

[v-bofeng-msft]

Hi @larschrjensen :

The format of the JSON string you provided looks wrong:

{
"EnvironmentVariables": [
{
"SchemaName": "tst_Deployment_env",
"Value": ""
} ]
}

Best Regards,

Bof

[lbolbot]

Hello @larschrjensen 

I encountered the same issue. For me, treating JSONs as strings with escaped double quotes worked.

Example

{
  "EnvironmentVariables": [
    {
      "SchemaName": "tst_samplejson",
      "Value": "{\"prop1\":\"val1\",\"prop2\":{\"subprop1\":\"val2\"}}"
    }
  ]
}

You won't have those backslashes in variable value after solution import.