Approve an on-hold approval job in a CircleCI workflow via the API v2

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Documented steps

  1. GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/workflow/{workflow-id}/job with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' to list all jobs belonging to the workflow.
  2. In the response's 'items' array, find the job entry of type 'approval' that is currently on hold (status 'on_hold'); it carries an 'approval_request_id' field, which is a separate UUID from the job's own 'id'.
  3. POST https://circleci.com/api/v2/workflow/{workflow-id}/approve/{approval_request_id} with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' and no request body.
  4. A successful call returns HTTP 202 with a JSON body of the form {"message": "string"}.
  5. Reference: https://circleci.com/docs/api/v2/index.html#tag/Workflow

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