Why do I get a "malformed value" error when creating a branch permission with API v2.0 ?

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I've been trying to create a branch restriction rule using the API v2.0:

https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/resource/repositories/%7Busername%7D/%7Brepo_slug%7D/branch-restrictions#post

I'm using python, and this is what my params and request look like:

data = {
"branch_match_kind" : "glob",
"kind" : "require_approvals_to_merge",
"type" : "branchrestriction",
"pattern" : branch,
"value" : str(br_approvals),
"users" : [],
"groups" : []
}

r = requests.post('https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/' + user + '/' + repo_slug + '/branch-restrictions', auth=HTTPBasicAuth(user, password), data=data)

It contemplates every mandatory field, including "value", which is why I don't understand why I keep getting the following error:

400
b'{"type": "error", "error": {"message": "malformed value"}}'

Can anyone shed some light on this?

John Tanios

I just figured it out. 

Use 

r = requests.post('https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/' + user + '/' + repo_slug + '/branch-restrictions', auth=HTTPBasicAuth(user, password), json=data)

Apparently, when you pass a dict through data, it converts everything to a string, while the API is expecting an int.

Also, make sure value is an int. Don't convert it to a string.