500 Internal Server Error when setting Env Vars via API

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Currently having issues with using the Netlify API (via Node wrapper) to update environment variables across a site network that deploys from the same project with a few env vars changed. Looking to make this process programmatic to streamline things, and can do everything except for update the environment variables on existing installs - getting 500 internal server error.

This is what I’m sending over:

const result = await client.updateEnvVar({
  account_id: 'my id here',
  site_id: 'correct site id here',
  key: 'BUILD_ENV',
  body: {
    key: 'BUILD_ENV',
    scopes: [ 'builds', 'functions', 'runtime', 'post-processing' ],
    values: [ { value: "locations", context: "all" } ]
  }
})

One of the most recent error_ids was: ac2a04ab-e47a-4c9b-94ee-be7f722e9740.

Thanks!

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Hey @verystack ! The updateEnvVar endpoint can only be used if you are using the newer version of Environment Variables (as opposed to the “classic” version – see the docs about this here). Can you confirm if you are using the newer version on your site? That might account for these errors. Let us know!

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Am on the new Env Vars experience on all affected sites

6

Hey @verystack,

We’ve raised this with the devs. It turns out, there’s something unexpected going on when performing that operation. We’ll let you know as we have more info.

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Hey @verystack ,

Our developers believe this is because you’re using the PUT endpoint to update a key that doesn’t exist. Could you try creating the env var before updating it and let us know if you run into the same error?