Technical breakdown: How to block projects from requesting code suggestions

We envision that we should give admins the ability to set which project or sub-group's projects shouldn't request code suggestions. Once set, not requesting code suggestions needs to be enforced at the IDE level. How do we do this?

Outcome:

• Define what we need to build in GitLab Rails
• Define what we need to build into IDE extensions

Implementation Notes

GitLab Rails

• Add git repo URL parameter to completion endpoint API
  • Find any projects for those repo URLs to see if they have "code_suggestions" set to false
  • Also checks status of existing group namespace setting code_suggestions
  • Add unique error message when explicitly blocked
• API query to update the status of a project based on Project ID (blocked / not blocked)
  • Allows setting / querying code_suggestions flag on project settings

Language Server

• Pass through git repo URLs on completion request
• Pass through / check the reponse for project blocked response

IDE Extensions

• Disable code suggestions if completion endpoint returns project blocked for X minutes
• Re-enable when switching projects / editors