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Draft: Validate presence of Organization on Namespace model

Rutger Wessels requested to merge 411832-namespace-org-validation-disabled into master

What does this MR do and why?

This MR introduces a validation for presence of Organization on the Namespace model. This is an important step for the Cell project, since we want a lot of data to be scoped to one Cell. For Namespaces, the organization_id will be the sharding key

Adding this validation is a complex and impactful change. And a lot of specs and code will change. If we would introduce this validation in MR, there would many more changes. So we need a way of reducing the number of changes and we can do that by disabling the the validation initially and then follow-up with a few MR's that enable the validation

In this MR:

  • Adding the actual validation (and corresponding specs)
  • Adding a way of disabling the validation
  • Changes in specs that are unavoidable

This MR has a lot of changes. But 26 changes are disabling the validation.

Validation disabled

The validation is dependent on the setting of Gitlab::SafeRequestStore[:require_organization]

Namespace.with_disabled_organization_validation do
	Groups::CreateService.new(current_user, group_params).execute
end

This will:

  • Set Gitlab::SafeRequestStore[:require_organization] to false
  • Run the code, skipping the validation
  • Set Gitlab::SafeRequestStore[:require_organization] to true

For specs, the Gitlab::SafeRequestStore is disabled. Therefore, we needed to enable it using :request_store modifier. All the specs in spec/support/helpers/disable_namespace_organization_validation.yml are executed with Gitlab::SafeRequestStore enabled.

Next steps

There will be a few followup MR's.

The way of working would be:

  • Remove locally a Namespace.with_disabled_organization_validation usage
  • Update specs and test the changes
  • Remove specs from the spec/support/helpers/disable_namespace_organization_validation.yml if the disablement is no longer needed

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Related to #411832

Edited by Rutger Wessels

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