Add sudo support

5 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/api-usage.rst b/docs/api-usage.rst
index 85e4b1f..b6a498d 100644
--- a/docs/api-usage.rst
+++ b/docs/api-usage.rst
@@ -117,3 +117,13 @@ Use the ``all`` parameter to get all the items:
 .. code-block:: python
 
    all_groups = gl.groups.list(all=True)
+
+Sudo
+====
+
+If you have the administrator status, you can use ``sudo`` to act as another
+user. For example:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+   p = gl.projects.create({'name': 'awesome_project'}, sudo='user1')
diff --git a/docs/cli.rst b/docs/cli.rst
index 2d150e6..53ef83f 100644
--- a/docs/cli.rst
+++ b/docs/cli.rst
@@ -189,3 +189,9 @@ Define the status of a commit (as would be done from a CI tool for example):
        --commit-id a43290c --state success --name ci/jenkins \
        --target-url http://server/build/123 \
        --description "Jenkins build succeeded"
+
+Use sudo to act as another user (admin only):
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   $ gitlab project create --name user_project1 --sudo username
diff --git a/gitlab/cli.py b/gitlab/cli.py
index 8ac8e45..7843423 100644
--- a/gitlab/cli.py
+++ b/gitlab/cli.py
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ def _populate_sub_parser_by_class(cls, sub_parser):
         [sub_parser_action.add_argument("--%s" % x.replace('_', '-'),
                                         required=True)
          for x in cls.requiredUrlAttrs]
+        sub_parser_action.add_argument("--sudo", required=False)
 
         if action_name == LIST:
             [sub_parser_action.add_argument("--%s" % x.replace('_', '-'),
diff --git a/gitlab/objects.py b/gitlab/objects.py
index a7105d2..28530a0 100644
--- a/gitlab/objects.py
+++ b/gitlab/objects.py
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ class GitlabObject(object):
         else:
             attributes = itertools.chain(self.requiredCreateAttrs,
                                          self.optionalCreateAttrs)
+        attributes = list(attributes) + ['sudo', 'page', 'per_page']
         for attribute in attributes:
             if hasattr(self, attribute):
                 data[attribute] = getattr(self, attribute)
diff --git a/tools/python_test.py b/tools/python_test.py
index 5292ed9..fd93f89 100644
--- a/tools/python_test.py
+++ b/tools/python_test.py
@@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ gr1_project = gl.projects.create({'name': 'gr1_project',
                                   'namespace_id': group1.id})
 gr2_project = gl.projects.create({'name': 'gr2_project',
                                   'namespace_id': group2.id})
+sudo_project = gl.projects.create({'name': 'sudo_project'}, sudo=user1.name)
 
-assert(len(gl.projects.all()) == 3)
+assert(len(gl.projects.all()) == 4)
 assert(len(gl.projects.owned()) == 2)
 assert(len(gl.projects.search("admin")) == 1)