Azure Devops Rest API - Variablegroups - Update - modify only one variable

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I am trying to update the value of a single variable of a variable group using Az DevOps Rest API. As per my initial experiments, it doesnt seem to be possible?

This is what I have tried:

Say I have a variable group called : my-var-group that has variables: my-variable-1:val1 my-variable-2:val2 And if I try :

curl -X PUT -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" -H "Content-Type:application/json" 'https://dev.azure.com/my-org/my-proj/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups/201?api-version=5.1-preview.1' --data '{"variables":{"my-variable-1":{"value":"random1"}},"name":"my-var-group"}'

my-variable-1 is assigned value random1 but my-variable-2 is deleted. Is there anyway to only update one variable?

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1 Answers

Here should be rather PATCH than PUT, but looking at documentation this is not possible.

I checked how it is done on Portal and there is used the same PUT endpoint as you mentioned. However, when you update there single value they still send all variables:

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So as a workaround you may first get all variables, modify the one you need and send the back via PUT.

Other opiton could be Azure CLI

az pipelines variable-group variable update --group-id
                                            --name
                                            [--detect {false, true}]
                                            [--new-name]
                                            [--org]
                                            [--project]
                                            [--prompt-value {false, true}]
                                            [--secret {false, true}]
                                            [--subscription]
                                            [--value]

which allows you to update single value. However, I don't know if this is an option for you.

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