Can't use remote template on private repo

[Zman94]

Expected Behavior

cdktf init --template= should allow more methods to use a remote template including a local path.

Actual Behavior

cdktf init --template requires a zip file which, I presume, uses curl or wget under the hood to pull. This prevents users from using repositories that they have access to, but can't authenticate with using curl or wget

Steps to Reproduce

• Fork python poetry remote template.
• make the repo private
• Create a release
• cdktf init --template='<path to release' --local
• Observe the following error

Extracting zip file
Error: end of central directory record signature not found
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdktf-cli/bundle/bin/cmds/handlers.js:110:448419
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdktf-cli/bundle/bin/cmds/handlers.js:110:456137
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdktf-cli/bundle/bin/cmds/handlers.js:110:438097
    at FSReqCallback.wrapper [as oncomplete] (node:fs:682:5)

Versions

cdktf debug language: null cdktf-cli: 0.17.1 node: v18.16.0 terraform: 1.4.6 arch: x64 os: linux 6.2.0-1016-azure

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[Zman94]

Additional info: The line that would need to change to support a local ref is here https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/blob/49558e5435c7858851eb102dddc788f8d4b6e640/packages/cdktf-cli/src/bin/cmds/helper/init.ts#L464.

Also, when I wget my file, I get an html page directing me to a single sign on.

[DanielMSchmidt]

I understand when you write <path to release> that it would refer to something like ../my-cloned-dir/ which is not the intended usage. Instead you should be using an URL to the GitHub repo, e.g. https://github.com/<user or organization>/<repo>/archive/refs/heads/main.zip. If you would want local files to work that would change the interface. You could create a for that PR if you like :)

[Zman94]

Is there guidance to running this with a private repo or an enterprise repo? There's no authentication that I could find in the code, so I was only ever able to download an HTML file pointing to a single sign on page