Display error message with empty `repo` field

[mmartin24]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

Issue

While the UI prevents a user from creating a gitrepo with empty repo this can be achieved via CLI and no error will be displayed in the UI.

Observed behavior

The user is not prevented from creating the repo
No error is shown in UI

Additional notes:

The same happens with Helmops

Expected Behavior

To display error
No response

Steps To Reproduce

• Deploy Rancher with continuous delivery
• Execute this via terminal with kubectl apply:

kind: GitRepo
apiVersion: fleet.cattle.io/v1alpha1
metadata:
  name: simple
  namespace: fleet-local
spec:
  repo:
  paths:
  - simple

Environment

- Architecture: amd64
- Fleet Version: 106.0.0+up0.12.0-alpha.14
- Cluster:
  - Provider: k3s
  - Options:
  - Kubernetes Version:  v1.30.3 +k3s1

Logs

Anything else?

No response

[weyfonk]

Additional QA

Problem

When using kubectl apply:

1. One could successfully create a GitRepo without any repo field.
2. Once that GitRepo had been created, it didn't display any error in the Rancher UI.

Solution

We have added validation on that field, which should prevent creation of a GitRepo:
A. Without a repo field
B. With an empty repo field (minimum field length: 1 character, to enable the URL to be validated by the gitOps controller)

Testing

Engineering Testing

Manual Testing

Tried creating a GitRepo in cases A. and B. above, which failed with different error messages reflecting the reason of the failure.

Automated Testing

N/A

QA Testing Considerations

Verify that, when creating a GitRepo with a 1-char (minimum length) URL, the Rancher UI displays an URL validation error for the GitRepo.

Regressions Considerations

(already covered by automated end-to-end tests) Creating a GitRepo with a valid URL should still succeed.

[mmartin24]

Tested in v2.12-931975c2c5795027c16de804caf35bb5247d83b2-head with fleet 107.0.0+up0.13.0-alpha.2

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• Verified empty gitrepo cannot be created:

As opposed in previous version:

• Verified gitrepo with single character can be created: