This library implements an interface to communicate with a Gitlab instance. Not all API endpoints are implemented, but patches are welcome.

The API is based off of the GitLab 12.9 API v4 and will likely aggressively track new API additions, so the newest release may not support talking to older releases where fields have been added.

All API types should be implemented in the types module. These types should generally be implemented based on the lib/api/entities.rb module in the Gitlab repository. However, in the interest of usability, entities may be combined using Option to handle the differences. Generally, this should be done where the difference is "small". As a concrete example, the Project entity has dozens of fields and ProjectWithAccess has one additional field (permissions) which is added using Option rather than creating a new ProjectWithAccess structure which only differs in this field.

In short, map the API as close as possible, but also know when to bend the rules.

If you run into places where Gitlab dumps a JSON value rather than an actual entity, please consider updating upstream to use a real entity so that changes to the structure are easier to track.

Since this crate follows Gitlab upstream, semantic versioning may not be possible. Instead, the crate uses the following versioning scheme:

• Gitlab 12.9 support → 0.1209.x
• Gitlab 12.8 support → 0.1208.x
• Gitlab 12.7 support → 0.1207.x
• Gitlab 12.6 support → 0.1206.x
• Gitlab 12.5 support → 0.1205.x
• Gitlab 12.4 support → 0.1204.x
• Gitlab 12.3 support → 0.1203.x
• Gitlab 12.2 support → 0.1202.x
• Gitlab 12.1 support → 0.1201.x
• Gitlab 12.0 support → 0.1200.x
• Gitlab 11.11 support → 0.1111.x
• Gitlab 11.10 support → 0.1110.x
• Gitlab 11.9 support → 0.1109.x
• Gitlab 11.8 support → 0.1108.x
• Gitlab 11.7 support → 0.1107.x
• Gitlab 11.6 support → 0.1106.x
• Gitlab 11.5 support → 0.1105.x
• Gitlab 11.4 support → 0.1104.x
• Gitlab 11.3 support → 0.1103.x
• Gitlab 11.2 support → 0.1102.x
• Gitlab 11.1 support → 0.1101.x
• Gitlab 11.0 support → 0.1100.x
• Gitlab 10.8 support → 0.1008.x
• Gitlab 10.7 support → 0.1007.x
• Gitlab 10.6 support → 0.1006.x
• Gitlab 10.5 support → 0.1005.x
• Gitlab 10.4 support → 0.1004.x
• Gitlab 10.3 support → 0.1003.x
• Gitlab 10.2 support → 0.1002.x
• Gitlab 10.1 support → 0.1001.x
• Gitlab 10.0 support → 0.1000.x
• Gitlab 9.5 support → 0.905.x
• Gitlab 9.4 support → 0.904.x
• Gitlab 9.3 support → 0.903.x
• Gitlab 9.2 support → 0.902.x
• Gitlab 9.1 support → 0.901.x
• Gitlab 9.0 support → 0.900.x
• Gitlab 8.17 support → 0.817.x
• Gitlab 8.16 support → 0.816.x

Minor versions may fix bugs, add API endpoint bindings, or improve webhook coverage. It is recommended to depend on the full version of the crate since types may change in patch-level updates in order to match Gitlab's interface:

gitlab = "=0.1209.1"

Sometimes, the API will return null for fields that have been added after the entry was created. In these cases, mark the field as an Option with a comment describing why it is so.