bitbucket-pipeline.yml error: Expected a string but found a mapping

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    • Severity 3 - Minor

      Issue Summary

      The following curl command to send API POST request is valid but throws an error in the editor and when running a pipeline:

      Steps to Reproduce

      • Add a step in bitbucket-pipelines.yml step with the below curl command,
      curl --location -g --request PUT 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/<workspaceID>/<repoSlug>/pipelines_config/variables/{0af2a2ef-cc17-4070-a7ff-f21ae7d558d3}'  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <oauth token here>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"type": "pipeline_variable", 
"uuid": "{var UUID here}", 
"key": "DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME", 
"value": "anyuser", 
"secured": false}'

      Expected Results

      The curl command works and modifies the variable value

      Actual Results

      Pipeline fails with below error,

      There is a YAML syntax error in your bitbucket-pipelines.yml at [line XX, column XX]. Mapping values are not allowed here

      Workaround

      Create a .sh file and adding curl command in the .sh file and execute this script from bitbucket-pipelines.yml step

      - step:      
          script: 
           - chmod +x api.sh
           - bash api.sh

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            Reporter:
            Swetha Boyapati
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