Variablegroups - Update

Service:

Task Agent

API Version:

5.0-preview.1

Update a variable group.

PUT https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups/{groupId}?api-version=5.0-preview.1

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
groupId	path	True	integer (int32)	Id of the variable group to update.
organization	path	True	string	The name of the Azure DevOps organization.
project	path	True	string	Project ID or project name
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '5.0-preview.1' to use this version of the api.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Sets description of the variable group.
name	string	Sets name of the variable group.
providerData	VariableGroupProviderData	Sets provider data.
type	string	Sets type of the variable group.
variables	<string,  VariableValue>	Sets variables contained in the variable group.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	VariableGroup	successful operation

Security

oauth2

Type: oauth2
Flow: accessCode
Authorization URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/authorize&response_type=Assertion
Token URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/token?client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer&grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer

Scopes

Name	Description
vso.variablegroups_manage	Grants the ability to read, create and manage variablegroups.

Examples

Update a variable group

Sample request

HTTP

PUT https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/DGDemo/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups/1?api-version=5.0-preview.1

{
  "variables": {
    "key1": {
      "value": "value1"
    },
    "key2": {
      "value": null,
      "isSecret": true
    }
  },
  "type": "Vsts",
  "name": "TestVariableGroup1",
  "description": "Updated variable group"
}

Sample response

Status code:

200

{
  "variables": {
    "key1": {
      "value": "value1"
    },
    "key2": {
      "value": null,
      "isSecret": true
    }
  },
  "id": 1,
  "type": "Vsts",
  "name": "TestVariableGroup1",
  "description": "Updated variable group",
  "createdBy": {
    "id": "4adb1680-0eac-6149-b5ee-fc8b4f6ca227"
  },
  "createdOn": "2017-12-12T06:35:51.6933333Z",
  "modifiedBy": {
    "id": "4adb1680-0eac-6149-b5ee-fc8b4f6ca227"
  },
  "modifiedOn": "2017-12-12T06:35:52.0166667Z"
}

Definitions

Name	Description
IdentityRef
ReferenceLinks	The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.
VariableGroup	A variable group is a collection of related variables.
VariableGroupParameters
VariableGroupProviderData	Defines provider data of the variable group.
VariableValue

IdentityRef

Object

Name	Type	Description
_links	ReferenceLinks	This field contains zero or more interesting links about the graph subject. These links may be invoked to obtain additional relationships or more detailed information about this graph subject.
descriptor	string	The descriptor is the primary way to reference the graph subject while the system is running. This field will uniquely identify the same graph subject across both Accounts and Organizations.
directoryAlias	string
displayName	string	This is the non-unique display name of the graph subject. To change this field, you must alter its value in the source provider.
id	string
imageUrl	string
inactive	boolean
isAadIdentity	boolean
isContainer	boolean
isDeletedInOrigin	boolean
profileUrl	string
uniqueName	string
url	string	This url is the full route to the source resource of this graph subject.

ReferenceLinks

Object

The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.

Name	Type	Description
links	object	The readonly view of the links. Because Reference links are readonly, we only want to expose them as read only.

VariableGroup

Object

A variable group is a collection of related variables.

Name	Type	Description
createdBy	IdentityRef	Gets or sets the identity who created the variable group.
createdOn	string (date-time)	Gets or sets the time when variable group was created.
description	string	Gets or sets description of the variable group.
id	integer (int32)	Gets or sets id of the variable group.
isShared	boolean	Indicates whether variable group is shared with other projects or not.
modifiedBy	IdentityRef	Gets or sets the identity who modified the variable group.
modifiedOn	string (date-time)	Gets or sets the time when variable group was modified
name	string	Gets or sets name of the variable group.
providerData	VariableGroupProviderData	Gets or sets provider data.
type	string	Gets or sets type of the variable group.
variables	<string,  VariableValue>	Gets or sets variables contained in the variable group.

VariableGroupParameters

Object

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Sets description of the variable group.
name	string	Sets name of the variable group.
providerData	VariableGroupProviderData	Sets provider data.
type	string	Sets type of the variable group.
variables	<string,  VariableValue>	Sets variables contained in the variable group.

VariableGroupProviderData

Object

Defines provider data of the variable group.

VariableValue

Object

Name	Type	Description
isSecret	boolean
value	string