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Add a REST API to create an organization

Abdul Wadood requested to merge 470613-api-create-organization into master

What does this MR do and why?

This change introduces a new POST API for organization creation. The functionality is controlled by a feature flag named allow_organization_creation. The change also modifies workhorse to enable file uploads on the /api/v4/organizations endpoint.

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Enable the feature flags in the rails console:
Feature.enable(:allow_organization_creation)
Feature.enable(:ui_for_organizations)
  1. Install the workhorse changes:
cd gitlab/workhorse
make install
  1. Create an API token on https://gdk.test:3000/-/user_settings/personal_access_tokens with read/write API permissions.
  2. Create an organization with avatar using the following curl command:
curl "https://gdk.test:3000/api/v4/organizations" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_API_TOKEN" \
     --form "name=My New Organization" \
     --form "path=my-new-organization" \
     --form "description=This is a great new organization" \
     --form "avatar=@/path-to-avatar.png"

Related to #470613 (closed)

Edited by Abdul Wadood

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