cUrl Post Request in CI/CD Pipeline

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Hi,

I am currently trying to call an API from a CI/CD pipeline.
I’ve been able to run a GET request but found out that I’d like to pass some metadata as well with a POST request

I’m almost there, but I’ve been stuck with CI/CD not reading/accessing the pipeline variables as I hoped.

Working GET and POST request is structured like this:

auto_deploy:
  stage: auto_deploy
  only:
    - test-qa
  script:
     - 'curl --request GET -H "ApiKey: $ApiKeyQA" -H "Deploytoken: $QA_DEPLOY_TOKEN" "$QA_DEPLOY_SERVICE_URL""$CI_PROJECT_NAME/"'

    - curl --request POST -H "ApiKey:$ApiKeyQA" -H "Deploytoken:$QA_DEPLOY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{ "environment":"qa", "repo_name":"$CI_PROJECT_NAME", "pr_message":"$CI_COMMIT_TITLE" }' $QA_DEPLOY_URL_POST

They both currently run and work, but the CI variables in the POST request are " $ci_project_name and $CI_COMMIT_TITLE", when I read it on the API side meaning they are not read/accessed correctly in the pipeline.

I’ve tried many variations and tried to Google around, but have not found any viable solutions yet. Would appreciate some feedback!

Thanks,
Anton

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Hey Anton,

Could you try writing your variables in the JSON part of your request as ${CI_PROJECT_NAME} - note the curly brackets?

E.g.

'{ "environment":"qa", "repo_name":"${CI_PROJECT_NAME}", "pr_message":"${CI_COMMIT_TITLE}" }'

Kind regards,
Paula

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I did that and it seems like the API is getting just the dollar sign $, I’ll have to debug to see what the payload is currently