Gitlab API: implement the ability to use group_id or user_id to protect tags

Problem to solve

Gitlab API for Protected tags doesn't support advanced protection like protected branches API and protected environments API:

• it is only possible to set role access level via create_access_level but
• it is NOT possible to set allowed_to_create by group_id or user_id.

Proposal

Implement the ability to also use group_id or user_id to protect tags like for protected environments API and protected branches API.

Essentially, after this would be introduced the documentation would look as proposed in !91586 (merged)

Links / references

Take note of the other issues that are essentially asking for the same:

• Gitlab API: Protected tags must be same as Branches
  • also asking for allowed_to_unprotect
• Cannot set groupID or userID for protected tag ... (#323830 - closed)
• Docs feedback - Allow API access to set protect... (#330373 - closed)
• Gitlab's UI and API discrepancy (#12987 - closed)

Customers

issue	customer & detail ask	contact
this issue here	https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/247805 group_id	@atanayno, @shoyle1
Gitlab API: Protected tags must be same as Bran... (#255305 - closed)	https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/224099 user_id	@hchouraria
Gitlab API: Protected tags must be same as Bran... (#255305 - closed)	https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/173875 * allowed_to_create and allowed_to_unprotect by user_id	@swainaina
this issue here	https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/290486 group_id and user_id	@duncan_harris, @conleyr
this issue here	https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/247893 group_id	@rotanak
Cannot set groupID or userID for protected tag ... (#323830 - closed)	https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/208158 user_id	@asmaa.hassan
Cannot set groupID or userID for protected tag ... (#323830 - closed)	https://gitlab.my.salesforce.com/0064M00000ZFD4B	@jrandazzo
Docs feedback - Allow API access to set protect... (#330373 - closed)	group_id
Gitlab's UI and API discrepancy (#12987 - closed)	group_id and user_id

* One customer asked for allowed_to_unprotect. There, did not seem to be a use case reason, just simply to make Protected Tags API fully on par with Protected Branches API and Protected Environments API, I suppose for consistency reasons. In the interest of our value Iteration, we will not add allowed_to_unprotect.

roughly 10 upvotes in total

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