Fetch CI_PROJECT_ID from gitlab instance

[justinTM]

gitlab-ci-local/src/predefined-variables.ts

Line 23 in 357299d

CI_PROJECT_ID: "1217",

I am using CI_PROJECT_ID in scripts to curl the GitLab API, and it's always failing because 1217 is not correct, nor a valid id for any project.

in my curl scripts i am looking up the id by searching project names. otherwise i am setting CI_PROJECT_ID myself in other projects' dotenv files within my job.

either way, it doesn't seem wise to define a variable which will never be correct

i can imagine a scenario where a blank CI_PROJECT_ID might cause problems for people, maybe we can discuss a solution for this case? but ideally we would set it to the correct id based on the full path results from git remote origin? and if we're offline we can use cached previous results from a file in .gitlab-ci-local/ or make it blank, or something else

[firecow]

Yeah, it's probably best to just leave it undefined.

Options:
  --help                   Show help                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  --unset-variable         Unsets a variable (--unset-variable HELLO)             [array]

Use this one for now.

[justinTM]

sweet! thank you

[alexey-vostrikov]

It is better to set

  CI_SERVER_PROTOCOL: "https"
  CI_SERVER_PORT: "443"
  CI_SERVER_URL: "${CI_SERVER_PROTOCOL}://${CI_SERVER_HOST}:${CI_SERVER_PORT}"
  CI_API_V4_URL: "${CI_SERVER_URL}/api/v4"
  CI_JOB_TOKEN: glpat-XxXx(personal access token)

and get the project id from gitlab api

or even acquire CI_JOB_TOKEN via JWT? OAUTH2? another machanism?

[hkhelif]

Wondering why the project ID is always set to 1217, wouldn't it be better to simply try to get the project ID at runtime then if the latter fails we simply keep it empty so the user can overwride it?

[firecow]

@hkhelif

CI_PROJECT_ID is always set by gitlab, so we though it was best to assign it some sane value to avoid breaking stuff.

We will always default to 1217.

Are you guys having problems overriding it to your desired value?

[alexey-vostrikov]

I have no problem to set it manually, but i want to set it automatically by making in API request in gitlab-ci-local internally

[firecow]

Auto fetch CI_PROJECT_ID from public repositories., implement something using CI_JOB_TOKEN to fetch CI_PROJECT_ID from private repositories.

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