Variable Group Creation using API in Azure Devops

Question

I am trying to create a variable group in an Azure DevOps project using the REST APIs and Python scripting. The API used is:

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups?api-version=7.0

The payload in use is attached. I am receiving an error: Failed to create variable group. Status code: 500

Response: {"$id":"1","innerException":null,"message":"Atleast one variable group project reference is required.","typeName":"Microsoft.TeamFoundation.DistributedTask.Server.Exceptions.InvalidRequestException, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.DistributedTask.Server","typeKey":"InvalidRequestException","errorCode":0,"eventId":3000}

What might be the problem here?

vargroup_data = {
            "name": "MyVariableGroup",
            "description": "This is my variable group",
            "type": "Vsts",
            "variables": {
                "myVariable": {
                "value": "myValue",
                "isSecret": False
                },
                "myPublicVariable": {
                "value": "myPublicValue",
                "isSecret": False
                }
            },
            "variableGroupProjectReferences": {
                "projectReference": {
                    "id": project_id,
                    "name": project
                }
            }
        }

Answer 1

The correct json (tested using postman) is

{
    "name": "MyVariableGroup",
    "description": "This is my variable group",
    "type": "Vsts",
    "variables": {
        "myVariable": {
        "value": "myValue"
        },
        "myPublicVariable": {
        "value": "myPublicValue"
        }
    },
    "variableGroupProjectReferences": [
        {
            "name" : "MyVariableGroup",
            "description" : "This is my variable group",
            "projectReference": {
                "id":"project_id",
                "name": "project_name"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Answer 2

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