GitlabDiscoveryEntityProvider

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Discovers catalog files located in your GitLab instance. The provider will search your GitLab instance's projects and register catalog files matching the configured path as Location entity and via following processing steps add all contained catalog entities. This can be useful as an alternative to static locations or manually adding things to the catalog.

Signature:

class GitlabDiscoveryEntityProvider implements EntityProvider 

Implements: EntityProvider

Methods

Method	Modifiers	Description
connect(connection)
fromConfig(config, options)	static
getProviderName()
refresh(logger)		Performs a full scan on the GitLab instance searching for locations to be ingested