Hi,
Is there a way to script variable creation without using the octopus.client? I would like to write a powershell script that will parse my cscfg files and create the variables in octopus for me. Id like to do this with just restapi but i cant get the put to return anything other than 500
# pull back var list
$varset = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$server/api/variables/variableset-$targetid" -Method Get -Headers $header
# add var to list
foreach($var in $configvarlist.GetEnumerator())
{
# build up var object
$varobject = New-Object PSObject
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name id -value ''
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name name -value $var.name
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Value -value $var.Value
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Scope -value 'Environments-3'
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name IsSensitive -value 'False'
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name IsEditable -value 'True'
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Prompt -value ''
# add object to var list
$varset.Variables += @($varobject)
}
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$server/api/variables/variableset-$targetid" -Method Put -Headers $header -Body $varset
Due to the way PowerShell objects work and the objects our API is expecting, I’ve modified your script slightly. I’ve tested this locally and it is working as expected.
# pull back var list
$varset = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$server/api/variables/variableset-$targetid" -Method Get -Headers $header
# add var to list
foreach($var in $configvarlist.GetEnumerator())
{
# build up var object
$varobject = New-Object PSObject
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Id -value ''
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Name -value $var.name
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Value -value $var.Value
# The scope object can be of type 'Environment', 'Machine', 'Role', 'Action'
# The value of the scope can also be multiple values, i.e. @('Environments-1', 'Environments-2', 'Environments-3')
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Scope -value @{'Environment'= @('Environments-1')}
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name IsSensitive -value 'False'
$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name IsEditable -value 'True'
# If you want the variable to be a Prompted variable, uncomment the below and fill in the proper values for the properties
#$varobject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Prompt -value @{Label='Prompt Label';Description='Prompt Description';Required='False';}
# add object to var list
$varset.Variables += @($varobject)
}
# We also need to convert the final object to JSON to be passed to our API
# the default nested property depth for ConvertTo-Json is 3,
# but our nested objects go deeper than that, so we need to specify the depth (5 seems to work fine
$body = $varset | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 5
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$server/api/variables/variableset-$targetid" -Method Put -Headers $header -Body $body
