GitLab API support

[XVilka]

See specification here:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/doc/api

[eleazan]

+1

[dfeyer]

+1

[manicminer]

You know there are plenty of Gitlab clients to choose from: https://about.gitlab.com/applications/

[agb80]

+1

[b-sh]

👍

[gsmethells]

👍

[StephenOTT]

Has anyone tried this yet? Just looking at it, and thinking about giving it a try

[knvpk]

+1

[rauhryan]

For anyone that is interested in claiming the GitLab support bounty.

Feel free to contact me personally via email or DM me on twitter if you have any questions regarding the somewhat unusual metaprogramming techniques in Ghee or my opinions on how the GitLab integration should best be implemented

Contant info:
📧 rauh.ryan@huboard.com
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Ryan Rauh
CEO & FOUNDER
HuBoard, Inc
github: rauhryan | twitter: rauhryan

[stanhu]

I'm curious how you envision managing the differences between GitLab and GitHub APIs. For example, GitHub has a concept of organizations and teams, while GitLab only has namespaces/groups. Also, naming is a bit different:

1. Pull requests -> Merge requests
2. Gists -> Snippets

I have a feeling that some work would have to be made in the GitLab API to include all the features used by ghee. For example, the filtering parameters may not all be supported (e.g. mentioned).

[rauhryan]

I think the easiest way is to make Ghee behave as similarly to the GitHub API as possible.

Perhaps Ghee can be an abstraction that provides the lowest common denominator to both API's

For example, the filtering parameters may not all be supported (e.g. mentioned).

HuBoard currently doesn't use this functionality, it's probably "ok" to have some filters that silently don't work when in GitLab mode.

I think the first step to GitLab support, or at least where *I* would start, is namespacing all the GitHub stuff under a Module

[rauhryan]

It's worth noting that whomever picks up this bounty can expect that myself and my team will be available to mentor and help whenever needed

[stanhu]

Thanks, @rauhryan. I'll take a crack at it since I'm fairly familiar with the GitLab and GitHub APIs.

[rauhryan]

Awesome!

Open a PR as early as possible and we'll keep an eye on it and give you feedback.

Let me know if you need help getting the test suite going, it's currently a bit of a pain in the ass because it's technically integration tests directly against the GitHub API