CI Lint API Does not properly handle template includes

Summary

Using a custom template include inside a .gitlab-ci.yml causes the CI lint API to fail. This causes problems with automating checks against the .gitlab-ci.yml in e.g. a git hook.

Steps to reproduce

Add an include block, e.g.

include:
  - project: 'templates/ci'
    file: 'anything.yml'

Then attempt to validate the .gitlab-ci.yml against the API:

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://git.[redacted].com/api/v4/ci/lint --data "$(jq -Rs '{ content: . }' .gitlab-ci.yml)"
{"status":"invalid","errors":["Project `templates/ci` not found or access denied!"]}

Note that both the application project/group is marked Private and the templates project/group is marked Internal in this case.

What is the current bug behavior?

The API incorrectly returns an error, even though the CI file is actually valid. Using the CI Lint tool in the UI at e.g. https://git.[redacted].com/templates/ci/-/ci/lint actually correctly validates the .gitlab-ci-yml file.

What is the expected correct behavior?

The CI Lint API should validate custom template include blocks. It should also produce the same results as using the CI Lint tool inside the GitLab UI.

Output of checks

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Results of GitLab environment info

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System information
System:		Debian 8.11
Proxy:		RSYNC_PROXY: [redacted]
		HTTPS_PROXY: http://[redacted]
		rsync_proxy: [redacted]
		https_proxy: http://[redacted]
		ALL_PROXY: http://[redacted]
		http_proxy: http://[redacted]
		HTTP_PROXY: http://[redacted]
Current User:	git
Using RVM:	no
Ruby Version:	2.6.5p114
Gem Version:	2.7.10
Bundler Version:1.17.3
Rake Version:	12.3.3
Redis Version:	5.0.7
Git Version:	2.26.2
Sidekiq Version:5.2.7
Go Version:	unknown

GitLab information
Version:	12.10.1-ee
Revision:	695c29abcf7
Directory:	/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails
DB Adapter:	PostgreSQL
DB Version:	11.7
URL:		https://git.[redacted].com
HTTP Clone URL:	https://git.[redacted].com/some-group/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:	git@git.[redacted].com:some-group/some-project.git
Elasticsearch:	yes
Geo:		no
Using LDAP:	yes
Using Omniauth:	yes
Omniauth Providers: 

GitLab Shell
Version:	12.2.0
Repository storage paths:
- default: 	/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories
GitLab Shell path:		/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell
Git:		/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git

Results of GitLab application Check

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Checking GitLab subtasks ...
Checking GitLab Shell ...
GitLab Shell: ... GitLab Shell version >= 12.2.0 ? ... OK (12.2.0)
Running /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell/bin/check
Internal API available: OK
Redis available via internal API: OK
gitlab-shell self-check successful
Checking GitLab Shell ... Finished
Checking Gitaly ...
Gitaly: ... default ... OK
Checking Gitaly ... Finished
Checking Sidekiq ...
Sidekiq: ... Running? ... yes
Number of Sidekiq processes ... 1
Checking Sidekiq ... Finished
Checking Incoming Email ...
Incoming Email: ... Reply by email is disabled in config/gitlab.yml
Checking Incoming Email ... Finished
Checking LDAP ...
LDAP: ... Server: ldapmain
not verifying SSL hostname of LDAPS server '[redacted]'
LDAP authentication... Success
LDAP users with access to your GitLab server (only showing the first 100 results)
User output sanitized. Found 17 users of 100 limit.
Checking LDAP ... Finished
Checking GitLab App ...
Git configured correctly? ... yes
Database config exists? ... yes
All migrations up? ... yes
Database contains orphaned GroupMembers? ... no
GitLab config exists? ... yes
GitLab config up to date? ... yes
Log directory writable? ... yes
Tmp directory writable? ... yes
Uploads directory exists? ... yes
Uploads directory has correct permissions? ... yes
Uploads directory tmp has correct permissions? ... yes
Init script exists? ... skipped (omnibus-gitlab has no init script)
Init script up-to-date? ... skipped (omnibus-gitlab has no init script)
Projects have namespace: ...
3/3 ... yes
8/5 ... yes
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73/269 ... yes
Redis version >= 4.0.0? ... yes
Ruby version >= 2.5.3 ? ... yes (2.6.5)
Git version >= 2.22.0 ? ... yes (2.26.2)
Git user has default SSH configuration? ... yes
Active users: ... 10
Is authorized keys file accessible? ... yes
Elasticsearch version 5.6 - 6.x? ... yes (7.6.2)
Checking GitLab App ... Finished
Checking GitLab subtasks ... Finished

Possible fixes

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