Managing members by member email or username

[IvanTurgenev1]

Is it possibly to use useremail or username instead of userid?

kind: Member
metadata:
  name: admin-member
spec:
  forProvider:
    groupIdRef:
      name: crossplane-example
    userID: [email protected]
    accessLevel: 50
  providerConfigRef:
    name: gitlab-provider
  writeConnectionSecretToRef:
    name: gitlab-group-example-member
    namespace: crossplane-system

[janwillies]

I don't think that's possible with the gitlab api. Would you mind filing a feature request upstream at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab?

[MisterMX]

AFAIK it is not possible to reference users directly but one could implement a spec.forProvider.userIdByUserName helper field that makes the controller look up the user ID at runtime if userId is not set. The Gitlab API itself supports searching users by their username.