From ec92d39be82c45e685e999162803847f0aa8b424 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elmar Hoffmann <elmar.hoffmann@credativ.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] support setting visibility_level on project creation

---
 gitlab/__init__.py | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitlab/__init__.py b/gitlab/__init__.py
index efec5e5..874945e 100644
--- a/gitlab/__init__.py
+++ b/gitlab/__init__.py
@@ -424,8 +424,8 @@ def getprojectevents(self, id_, page=1, per_page=20):
     def createproject(self, name, namespace_id=None, description="",
                       issues_enabled=0, wall_enabled=0,
                       merge_requests_enabled=0, wiki_enabled=0,
-                      snippets_enabled=0, public=0, sudo="",
-                      import_url=""):
+                      snippets_enabled=0, public=0, visibility_level=-1,
+                      sudo="", import_url=""):
         """
         Create a project
         :param name: Obligatory
@@ -443,12 +443,22 @@ def createproject(self, name, namespace_id=None, description="",
         if sudo != "":
             data['sudo'] = sudo
 
-        # if gitlab is the new 6th version, there is a public option for the
-        # project creation
+        # to define repository visibilty to other users, in gitlab version 6
+        # there is a public option and in gitlab version 7 there is a
+        # visibility_level option for the project creation.
         if type(public) != int:
             raise TypeError
+        if type(visibility_level) != int:
+            raise TypeError
+
+        if visibility_level > 0:
+            if public != 0:
+                raise ValueError('Only one of public and visibility_level arguments may be provided')
+            data['visibility_level'] =  visibility_level
+
         if public != 0:
             data['public'] = public
+
         request = requests.post(self.projects_url, headers=self.headers,
                                 data=data, verify=self.verify_ssl)
         if request.status_code == 201:

From cc3a5484706da821e52e8b7a3dd9532e0cfb3a0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elmar Hoffmann <elmar.hoffmann@credativ.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:50:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] allow specifying names for visibility_level

---
 gitlab/__init__.py | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitlab/__init__.py b/gitlab/__init__.py
index 874945e..0ab676a 100644
--- a/gitlab/__init__.py
+++ b/gitlab/__init__.py
@@ -449,7 +449,17 @@ def createproject(self, name, namespace_id=None, description="",
         if type(public) != int:
             raise TypeError
         if type(visibility_level) != int:
-            raise TypeError
+            if type(visibility_level) == str:
+                if visibility_level.lower() == "private":
+                    visibility_level = 0
+                elif visibility_level.lower() == "internal":
+                    visibility_level = 10
+                elif visibility_level.lower() == "public":
+                    visibility_level = 20
+                else:
+                    raise ValueError
+            else:
+                raise TypeError
 
         if visibility_level > 0:
             if public != 0: