Manage project environment variables via the CircleCI API v2

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Documented steps

  1. GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/{project-slug}/environment-variable with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' to list all env vars for the project.
  2. POST https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/{project-slug}/environment-variable with headers 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' and 'Content-Type: application/json', and body {"name": "MY_VAR", "value": "my-value"} to create/overwrite a variable.
  3. DELETE https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/{project-slug}/environment-variable/{env_var_name} with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' to remove a variable.
  4. To rotate a value, delete the variable then POST it again with the new value - there is no separate update-in-place operation distinct from create.
  5. Reference: https://circleci.com/docs/api/v2/index.html#tag/Project

Known gotchas

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