adding up multiple variables to host via api ends up with {"variables":["Not a valid string."]}

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Bug Summary

Might be related to #14585 fixxed in https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/23.4.0

Adding multiple variables to host ends up with given error message.

$body = @{ "variables" = @( "last_seen: $lastseen", "os_version: $os" ) }

iwr -Uri $uri -UseBasicParsing -Headers $header -Body ($body|ConvertTo-Json) -Method PATCH -ContentType "application/json

AWX version

23.8.1

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Installation method

kubernetes

Modifications

no

Ansible version

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Operating system

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Steps to reproduce

create powershell json body like given
push to host api

Expected results

multiple variables getting added

Actual results

{"variables":["Not a valid string."]} error message

Additional information

Workaround works when pushing to api endpoint /api/v2/hosts/id/variables_data directly

[thedoubl3j]

yes, the variable field is a string field. you will need to "stringify" your yaml or json.