Cannot construct instance of `org.camunda.bpm.engine.rest.dto.VariableValueDto

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In an external application I manipulate the variables of a process and then feed it back to the engine via REST as JSON. However deserialization fails and after some digging with Postman I get this error:

Cannot construct instance of `org.camunda.bpm.engine.rest.dto.VariableValueDto` (although at least one Creator exists): no String-argument constructor/factory method to deserialize from String value ('8')

I have a custom dto class to deserialize to but can’t seem to get the Map<String, Object> from the JSON. What do I need to do?

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Try by passing request in below format,

{
“workerId”: “ncto_worker”,
“variables”: {
“isRetry” : {“value”:false}
}
}

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