I have two projects, first is SOURCES (technical base) and second is an ant software. I have create a gitlab-ci.yml on the second project but the build pipeline is always in error because sources libraries are not referenced.
In my build.xml, sources are referenced like this: ${SOURCES_DIRRECTORY}/folder/lib/library.jar In the gitlab-ci.yml I can set SOURCES_DIRRECTORY but putting the url of the other project doesn't seem to work.
A prohibited solution is to add the sources in an local lib folder. (so as not to duplicate)
Is it possible to reference another gitlab project from my CI ? Otherwise, how can I retrieve and use the artifact generated by the sources project to obtain the libraries on my software project?
Thank you for your answers
You can use the GitLab CI APIs to download the artifacts made in the other project.
I do something similar in one of my project and it work for me
curl -k --location --output artifacts.zip --header "JOB-TOKEN: $CI_JOB_TOKEN" "$CI_API_V4_URL/projects/$CI_PROJECT_ID/jobs/artifacts/devel/download?job=$STAGE_NAME"
In this case i download the artifacts made by another branch in the same project, so I already have setted by default the variables and I can use JOB-TOKEN, instead you should use the PRIVATE-TOKEN that is an ACCESS TOKEN with the API permission grant. You should have something like that
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/artifacts/main/download?job=test"