`circleci orb validate` fails with private dependent orb from same namespace

[jschwanz]

Meta:

CircleCI CLI Version:

• using image circleci/circleci-cli@sha256:eee9b00ad8929a528171d773e2ffc9d9f82fcd31c2e89a3da9f22bf17bf54bfc
• 0.1.19666+830e7ff (release)

Operating System:
Ubuntu 20.04

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Current behavior:

I'm attempting to author a private orb that has a dependency on another private orb in the same namespace. When circleci orb validate runs as a part of orb-tools I get:

Error: Cannot find my-namespace/dep-orb@1.2.3 in the orb registry. Check that the namespace, orb name and version are correct.

Expected behavior:

I expect the orb validate process to be able to validate the use of private orbs from the same namespace.

[jschwanz]

This functionality already exists in circleci config validate with the --org-id and --org-slug arguments. It would be really nice to have it here, too.

[rafaelqueiroz93]

Unfortunatelly I'm having the same problem.

Waiting for a solution

[adamdmharvey]

We are having this problem with our orbs as well. Effectively, it means we can't really use the circleci orb validate command as most of our private orbs cross-reference each other now for ease of maintenance/encapsulation/reuse.

[mcommons1]

Is there any update on this issue?

[ADUDevEx]

After the security breach we experienced in CircleCI we migrated to private orbs and are now blocked by this.

[kelvintaywl]

thank you for your sharing folks!

I am tagging our developer experience team here @CircleCI-Public/developer-experience to see if we can offer any updates on this 🙏

[praveenkeshri]

?

[ADUDevEx]

Thank you @kelvintaywl for your support on this issue. Hopefully the developer-experience team will find time to update this.

[JulesFaucherre]

Hello,

Developer from @CircleCI-Public/developer-experience , really sorry we took so much time to answer. We are starting looking into the problem. @jschwanz, the solution we are going to make will surely look something like this but we first need our back-end to support this so unfortunately it's going to take a bit more time.
Anyway we are looking into the issue and we should fix it soon

[tdeekens]

Thanks for the feedback @JulesFaucherre. Has there been any progress on this. Running into this is quite tedious to get around and I am sure fixing it would uplift how companies can adopt and use Orbs more easily.

[JulesFaucherre]

Hello, yes sorry for not getting back to this before! This took us a bit more time than expected because we had dependencies on other teams. Now it's a bit more advanced and we should be releasing this fix by the beginning of next week!

[zbenhadi]

I've opened a pull request to solve this problem: #922

The orb validate will be able to accept org-slug and/or org-id flags just like config validate command.

[zbenhadi]

Hello again ! The PR has been merged and a new cli version has been released fixing this issue (https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli/releases/tag/v0.1.26255)

Thanks to everyone who participated in this issue !