Alert API error in import: invalid alert rule: folderUID must be set

Grafana Alerting
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Hi! I am working on a script to export and import alertrules, contactpoints, folders and policies to version our monitoring and alerting configuration as code.

Exporting resources as json is working fine, importing mostly so far. I am using JQ to replace resource IDs ahead of importing to match the exported resources. Still I am getting the error

{"message":"invalid alert rule: folderUID must be set","traceID":""}%

when importing the alert-rules api export. Example of my exported json files:

folders.json:

[{"id":884,"uid":"ce1q6efcq2ubka","title":"1"},{"id":186,"uid":"ae08zxo0atvr4f","title":"2"},{"id":155,"uid":"cdyuo4d5ddfcwb","title":"3"}]

alertrules.json:

[{"id":7,"uid":"ae0ckily3162oe","orgID":1,"folderUID":"ae08zxo0atvr4f","ruleGroup":"5m","title":"dev","condition":"B","data":[{"refId":"A","queryType":"","relativeTimeRange":{"from":900,"to":0},"datasourceUid":"P6956E1DFFD6851CF","model":{"dataset":"fx","datasource":{"type":"mysql","uid":"P6956E1D .... (truncated) ]

Grafana version is Grafana v11.4.0 (b58701869e).

Thanks in advance for any helpful pointers or solutions. KR Luis

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As usual, shortly after complaining I was able to fix it on my own. It was a problem in my jq replacing and works as intented if UIDs are set correctly.