ARM Template 'type' property required - azure-cli

Question

I am trying to deploy a documentDb from the Azure-Cli (version 0.10.2) and so I exported the template directly from azure portal.
This resulted in an error of:
InvalidRequestContent : The request content was invalid and could not be deserialized: 'Could not find member 'defaultValue' on object of type 'DeploymentParameterDefinition'. Path 'properties.parameters.arm_document_db.defaultValue'
Changing those to "value" results in:
InvalidDeploymentParameterType : The type of deployment parameter 'arm_document_db' should not be specified. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-deploy/#parameter-file for details.
checking this page indicates that type is required, but is all in lowercase. This gave the same error.
removing "type" then gives me this error:
InvalidRequestContent : The request content was invalid and could not be deserialized: 'Required property 'type' not found in JSON. Path 'properties.template.parameters.arm_document_db'
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"arm_document_db": {
"defaultValue": null,
"type": "SecureString"
},
"arm_document_db01": {
"defaultValue": "arm-document-db01",
"type": "String"
}
},
"variables": {},
"resources": [
{
"type": "Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts",
"kind": "DocumentDB",
"name": "[parameters('arm_document_db01')]",
"apiVersion": "2015-04-08",
"location": "Japan West",
"tags": {},
"properties": {
"databaseAccountOfferType": "Standard",
"name": "[parameters('arm_document_db')]"
},
"dependsOn": []
}
]
}
The aka.ms link shows that 'type' is required, however the error says that it isn't. Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The error is not for azuredeploy.json. It's for azuredeploy.parameters.json.
Remove the "type" field from your parameters file.