Issues getting flow to send the correct json in body when using powerautomate's http request - power-automate

Question

I'm using a PowerAutomate Flow to call a native SmartSheet API that does a POST. The POST IS working but my MULTI_PICKLIST type field is not being populated correctly in SmartSheet due to the double quotes.
The API is: concat('https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0/sheets/', variables('vSheetID'), '/rows')
In the Body section of the http rest API I form my JSON and the section of interest looks like this:
{
"columnId": 6945615984781188,
"objectValue": {
"objectType": "MULTI_PICKLIST",
"values": [
#{variables('vServices')}
]
}
}
My variable vServices raw output looks like:
{
"body":
{
"name": "vServices",
"value": "Test1, Test2"
}
}
The format needs to be like this (it works using PostMan).
{
"columnId": 6945615984781188,
"objectValue": {
"objectType": "MULTI_PICKLIST",
"values": [
"Test1","Test2"
]
}
}
As a step in formatting my vServices variable I tried to do a replace function to replace the ',' with a '","' but this ultimately ends up as a \",\"
Any suggestion on how to get around this? Again, ultimately I need the desired JSON Body to read but haven't been able to achieve this in the Body section:
{
"columnId": 6945615984781188,
"objectValue": {
"objectType": "MULTI_PICKLIST",
"values": [
"Test1","Test2"
]
}
}
vs this (when using replace function).
{
"columnId": 6945615984781188,
"objectValue": {
"objectType": "MULTI_PICKLIST",
"values": [
"Test1\",\"Test2"
]
}
}
Thank you in advance,

Answer 1

I resolved my issue by taking the original variable, sending it to a compose step that did a split on the separator of a comma. I then added a step to set a new variable to the output of the compose step. This left me with a perfectly setup array in the exact format I needed! This seemed to resolve any of the issues I was having with double quotes and escape sequences.