Support Gitlab API

[edrex]

This is a placeholder issue to create a version of Github.js which works with Gitlab's HTTP API. The motivation is to allow Prose.io to work with self-hosted repos using Gitlab.

Gitlab is an opensource/self-hostable alternative to Github. It has a very similar data model (users, orgs, forks, etc), and an HTTP API of similar expressivity.

There is a public service at https://gitlab.com/ for testing.

Any other interest in such a port?

[philschatz]

I'm interested in both having a port and contributing (see https://github.com/philschatz/octokit.js and https://github.com/philschatz/github-book)

[elviejo79]

This would be very useful... count me in for testing :-)

[elumalai]

+1

[walterjenner]

+1

[sebble]

Has there been further discussion on this issue?

I had a quick look at the HTTP API referenced in the original comment and noticed a NodeJS implementation which may provide some of the groundwork.

[philschatz]

I skimmed through moul/node-gitlab the design choices look very similar to https://github.com/philschatz/octokat.js . I think I can hack something up once I finish the following:

• re-add in a few helper methods (like repo.writeMany())
• add support for callbacks instead of just promises
• write tests for all the new methods in the PR

Aside: philschatz/octokit.js no longer depends on jQuery and underscore but it does use Promises and CoffeeScript.

[cirosantilli]

+1. Is Prose currently using this project? Couldn't find where it is required.

[philschatz]

The original library is a fork of the lib used by Prose.

octokat.js uses a Regular Expression (see src/grammar.coffee) to define what operations are possible.

Does anyone have a list of all routes for GitLab's API?

[cirosantilli]

@philschatz Not sure there is a list, but a good approximation can be found with:

git clone https://github.com/github/developer.github.com
cd developper.github.com/content/v3
git grep -E '^\s*(HEAD|GET|POST|PATCH|PUT|DELETE) /'

[cirosantilli]

I have started sketching a solution at philschatz#59 to see how feasible this is.

[sebble]

@philschatz I used the command suggested by @cirosantilli to produce the following files https://gist.github.com/sebble/ed1bf6a723ac8fee8cf1, I am also looking into GitLab support with Prose which seems not to use a library any more unless I am mistaken, see prose/prose#713.

[mikemorris]

For reference, Prose has not used this library for almost a year now.

[cirosantilli]

@sebble This is very interesting!

1. is there a particular reason you are interested in a GitLab editor frontend? I'm building: https://github.com/booktree/booktree
2. the file prose.io of the Gist:
   1. contains all GitHub entry points?
   2. GitLab support added is partial or full currently?

[sebble]

Thanks, see prose/prose#713 for prose GitHub/GitLab/Prose discussion.

[aendra-rininsland]

I'd really like to close this issue TBTH; the goal of this library is to be a light implementation of the GitHub API, and I'm sure there are much better libraries for interacting with GitLab than this.

If anyone is disappointed that I've done this, please make yourselves heard and I'll consider reopening. Many thanks!