WIP: Retrieve merge request status for any job #940
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This merge request adds a pipeline function
gitlabMergeRequestStatus(projectId, branchName)
to retrieve merge request information about any given project/branch.This would be useful in cases where the pipeline needs to behave differently if there is a merge request open, e.g. running long resource intensive tests only for merge requests, or in pipelines that are triggered by other jobs. This is a partial solution to the fact that Multi-branch pipelines don't get run for merge requests. These values are retrieved directly since they can't be propagated to the multi-branch build.
Ideally this could be tested by having a mock gitlab instance provide canned JSON responses, but I don't know how to accomplish that within the existing framework.
This is WIP to: