passing json array with spaces to bash script for az cli tagging - json

Question

I have a bash script that looks like the following and correctly passes tags to the az cli that includes spaces.
RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME=$1
LOCATION=$2
TAGS_INPUT_ARGUMENT=$3 # This TAGS_INPUT_ARGUMENT needs to finally look like the TAGS below.
echo 'TAGS_INPUT_ARGUMENT:' $TAGS_INPUT_ARGUMENT
# HARD CODED TAGS that Work
TAGS=("owner=Firstname Lastname" "application=cool-name")
echo 'TAGS:' "${TAGS[#]}"
az group create \
--name $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME \
--location $LOCATION \
--tags "${TAGS[#]}"
I am having problems passing the TAGS into the script.
i.e.
export TAGS='["owner=Firstname Lastname","application=cool-name"]'
bash ./entrypoint.sh rg-lionking eastus2 "${TAGS}"
Output:
TAGS_INPUT_ARGUMENT: ["owner=Firstname Lastname","application=cool-name"]
TAGS: owner=Firstname Lastname application=cool-name
{
"id": "/subscriptions/**REDACTED**/resourceGroups/rg-lionking",
"location": "eastus2",
"managedBy": null,
"name": "rg-lionking",
"properties": {
"provisioningState": "Succeeded"
},
"tags": {
"application": "cool-name",
"owner": "Firstname Lastname"
},
"type": "Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups"
}
Given that I can get TAGS in a good state, what do I need to do to pass in the same thing in json format and get it working as the final argument to the az group create cli?
My jp knowledge is practically zero, so I am guessing that the answer lies in there somewhere.

Answer 1

The equivalent to expanding an array is on the command line is passing multiple separate arguments
./entrypoint rg-lionking eastus2 "owner=Firstname Lastname" "application=cool-name"
...and then, in entrypoint:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
resource_group_name=$1; shift
location=$1; shift
tags=( "$#" )
az group create \
--name "$resource_group_name" \
--location "$location" \
--tags "${tags[#]}"