DevOps for Mobile Apps Demo - December 15, 2021
Recording
Mission
DevOps for Mobile Apps Single-Engineer Group
Our goal is to improve the experience for Developers targeting mobile platforms by providing CI/CD capabilities and workflows that improve the experience of provisioning and deploying mobile apps.
Demos like this one are published each week, you can find previous demos and see new ones when they are finished in the Weekly Demos issue.
Current Update - Adding Secure Files Uploader / Downloader MR
Merge Request
Adding Secure Files Uploader / Downloader
APIs
Upload a Secure File
Secure Files can be uploaded via POST /projects/:id/secure_files with the name, file (5 MB limit) and optional permissions inputs. For example:
curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/secure_files --form "name=myfile.jks" --form "file=@/path/to/file/myfile.jks"
The response payload includes the file id, name, download_token, and permissions.
{
"id": 1,
"name": "myfile.jks",
"download_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6MywiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6IjIwMjEtMTItMTUgMjA6MDc6MjggVVRDIn0.dYW_eEPd8isH8qwdKHR2Jv1WksvKg7D0mOj6_wTEeY8",
"permissions": "read_only"
}List all Secure Files for a Project
A list of Secure Files for a project is returned via GET /projects/:id/secure_files. The response payload is similar to the above.
curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/secure_files"
[{
"id": 1,
"name": "myfile.jks",
"download_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6MywiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6IjIwMjEtMTItMTUgMjA6MDc6MjggVVRDIn0.dYW_eEPd8isH8qwdKHR2Jv1WksvKg7D0mOj6_wTEeY8",
"permissions": "read_only"
}]Get an individual Secure File
An individual Secure File is returned via GET /projects/:id/secure_files/:secure_file_id with a similar response payload.
curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/secure_files/1"
{
"id": 1,
"name": "myfile.jks",
"download_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6MywiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6IjIwMjEtMTItMTUgMjA6MDc6MjggVVRDIn0.dYW_eEPd8isH8qwdKHR2Jv1WksvKg7D0mOj6_wTEeY8",
"permissions": "read_only"
}Download a Secure File
A single Secure File can be downloaded via GET /projects/:id/secure_files/:secure_file_id/download?token=<download_token>. There is no JSON response for this endpoint, it simply returns the decrypted file content.
The download token is a short-lived (30 min) token specific to the individual file and required by the download API.
curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/secure_files/1/download?token=<download_token> --output myfile.jks
Delete an individual Secure File
An individual Secure File can be deleted via DELETE /projects/:id/secure_files/:secure_file_id
curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/secure_files/1"
Up Next
- Work to gather feedback on the MR
- Work through remaining To Dos in the MR