powershell invoke rest api toward AWX

Question

I'm struggling for last week or more with sending rest api command from powershell to add host in AWX(from curl is working). When I sent one parameter is worki but I need to send also variables

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic $VfAwxTokenX")
$Headers.Add('Content-Type', 'application/json')
$body = @{
  name = '$vmname'
  variables = 'test'

}| ConvertTo-Json  
write-output    $body
$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://awx/api/v2/inventories/2/hosts/' -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -UseBasicParsing -Body $body

and error what i get:

{ "name": "wewewe", "variables": "test" } Invoke-RestMethod : {"variables":["Cannot parse as JSON (error: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)) or YAML (error: Input type str is not a dictionary)."]} At line:32 char:13

$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://awx/api ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], WebException

FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand

Maybe any one of users had that issue and now how to overcome it?

Jim Xu Jim Xu · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-25T07:54:15

According to my research, the parameter variables should be defined as JSON or YAML format. For more details, please refer to here.

For more details about how to call the API, please refer to the blog.

powershell invoke rest api toward AWX

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