Inject Trello Automation variable into HTTP request

Question

I want to leverage Trello Automation to create a pull request on my Bitbucket repo via Bitbucket Rest API.

Given a Trello card which has a number and a name. In Automation, we have corresponding variables: {cardnumber} and {cardname}

I created a rule like this:

post to url:

https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/plb-alana/alana/pullrequests

payload (represented as JSON object):

{
 "title": {cardname},
 "source": {
 "branch": {
 "name": "feature/"{cardnumber}"/"{cardname}
 }
 },
 "destination": {
 "branch": {
 "name": "staging"
 }
 }
}

But looks like the Automation didn't substitute my variables into actual values.

Can I confirm automation variables are working in such use case ?

Mat_w4y9na · Answer

Hi there!

Could you send me the payload again as the one in your query does not seem to be formatted correctly, especially on this part:

"name": "feature/"{cardnumber}"/"{cardname}

Just to let you know that variables used in the payload are automatically escaped to be part of a valid JSON string. I would recommend to try using one variable for now and shorten your JSON object to check if it works.

For more information: https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/issuing-http-requests/

I hope this helps, but let us know if you have any questions!
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