Draft: feat: Add scripts to read and write the cicd vars

DO NOT merge this yet.

It is a utility script that makes life easy while moving vars from one project to another.

This is open for feedback, so it might need some improvements but is ready for use.

scripts/gitlab-ci-vars-reader.py

+import argparse
+import json
+
+import gitlab
+
+
+# Function to fetch all CI/CD variables from a GitLab project
+def fetch_variables(project):
+    p_variables = list(project.variables.list(iterator=True))
+    variables = [var.asdict() for var in p_variables]
+
+    return variables
+
+
+def fetch_sched_variables(sched_pipeline):
+    variables = sched_pipeline.attributes["variables"]
+    return variables
+
+
+# Main function to load the config and fetch variables
+def main():
+    # Setup argument parser
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="GitLab CI/CD Variable reader")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--config_file",
+        type=str,
+        default="gitlab.ini",
+        required=True,
+        help="Path to the configuration file (default: gitlab.ini)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--var_file",
+        type=str,
+        default="ci-variables.json",
+        help="Path to the CI vars file (default: ci-variables.json)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--project_id",
+        type=int,
+        default="",
+        required=True,
+        help="Gitlab project ID to read variables from",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--sched_pipeline_id",
+        type=int,
+        help="Gitlab project scheduled pipeline ID",
+    )
+
+    # Parse the arguments
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    gl = gitlab.Gitlab.from_config("uabrc", [args.config_file])
+    project = gl.projects.get(args.project_id)
+
+    # Fetch project or sched pipeline variables
+    if not args.sched_pipeline_id:
+        variables = fetch_variables(project)
+    else:
+        sched_pipeline = project.pipelineschedules.get(args.sched_pipeline_id)
+        variables = fetch_sched_variables(sched_pipeline)
+
+    try:
+        with open(args.var_file, "w") as file:
+            json.dump(variables, file, indent=2)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        print(f"Error: Writing File to '{args.var_file}'")
+        exit(1)
+
+
+# Run the main function
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()