How do I add projects with the same name for the GitLab module?

[AndrewCarterUK]

How can we help?

The documentation uses a key value pair, where the key is the name of the repository and the value is the namespace.

We have a few projects that use api as a slug for the name, and are differentiated by their namespace.

For example:

gitlab.com/our-company/customer-1/shopping-site/api
gitlab.com/our-company/customer-2/phone-app/api

With the GitLab module, these both have a key of API so can't be represented in YAML (I think?).

[senorprogrammer]

Yeah, this is definitely problematic. I think a better approach would be to have:

    projects:
      namespace-a:
      - project-name-1
      - project-name-2
      namespace-b:
      - project-name-1
      - project-name-3

[AndrewCarterUK]

I managed to find a workaround, as I can do:

projects:
    "customer-1/shopping-site/api": "our-company"
    "customer-2/phone-app/api": "our-company"

But it feels a bit messy!

[Seanstoppable]

I think fully qualified namespace actually makes sense, rather than trying to figure out the right thing.
My other suggestion would have been to support a list of paths, and have it work more like github. I.e. it would look like the following, and split on the first /:

projects:
  - "our-company/customer-2/phone-app/api"
  - "our-company/customer-1/shopping-site/api"

[senorprogrammer]

Yep, I have a PR in the works that will do exactly this ^ for the GitLab module. Should be merged into master by Monday morning.

[senorprogrammer]

@AndrewCarterUK if you want to give this branch a try, it should solve your issue. You should now be able to configure GitLab projects as a list as @Seanstoppable describes above.

[senorprogrammer]

This has been merged into master and will be part of the next release.