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- // Copyright 2013 The go-github AUTHORS. All rights reserved.
- //
- // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
- // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
- /*
- Package github provides a client for using the GitHub API.
-
- Usage:
-
- import "github.com/google/go-github/v24/github" // with go modules enabled (GO111MODULE=on or outside GOPATH)
- import "github.com/google/go-github/github" // with go modules disabled
-
- Construct a new GitHub client, then use the various services on the client to
- access different parts of the GitHub API. For example:
-
- client := github.NewClient(nil)
-
- // list all organizations for user "willnorris"
- orgs, _, err := client.Organizations.List(ctx, "willnorris", nil)
-
- Some API methods have optional parameters that can be passed. For example:
-
- client := github.NewClient(nil)
-
- // list public repositories for org "github"
- opt := &github.RepositoryListByOrgOptions{Type: "public"}
- repos, _, err := client.Repositories.ListByOrg(ctx, "github", opt)
-
- The services of a client divide the API into logical chunks and correspond to
- the structure of the GitHub API documentation at
- https://developer.github.com/v3/.
-
- NOTE: Using the https://godoc.org/context package, one can easily
- pass cancelation signals and deadlines to various services of the client for
- handling a request. In case there is no context available, then context.Background()
- can be used as a starting point.
-
- For more sample code snippets, head over to the https://github.com/google/go-github/tree/master/example directory.
-
- Authentication
-
- The go-github library does not directly handle authentication. Instead, when
- creating a new client, pass an http.Client that can handle authentication for
- you. The easiest and recommended way to do this is using the golang.org/x/oauth2
- library, but you can always use any other library that provides an http.Client.
- If you have an OAuth2 access token (for example, a personal API token), you can
- use it with the oauth2 library using:
-
- import "golang.org/x/oauth2"
-
- func main() {
- ctx := context.Background()
- ts := oauth2.StaticTokenSource(
- &oauth2.Token{AccessToken: "... your access token ..."},
- )
- tc := oauth2.NewClient(ctx, ts)
-
- client := github.NewClient(tc)
-
- // list all repositories for the authenticated user
- repos, _, err := client.Repositories.List(ctx, "", nil)
- }
-
- Note that when using an authenticated Client, all calls made by the client will
- include the specified OAuth token. Therefore, authenticated clients should
- almost never be shared between different users.
-
- See the oauth2 docs for complete instructions on using that library.
-
- For API methods that require HTTP Basic Authentication, use the
- BasicAuthTransport.
-
- GitHub Apps authentication can be provided by the
- https://github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation package.
-
- import "github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation"
-
- func main() {
- // Wrap the shared transport for use with the integration ID 1 authenticating with installation ID 99.
- itr, err := ghinstallation.NewKeyFromFile(http.DefaultTransport, 1, 99, "2016-10-19.private-key.pem")
- if err != nil {
- // Handle error.
- }
-
- // Use installation transport with client
- client := github.NewClient(&http.Client{Transport: itr})
-
- // Use client...
- }
-
- Rate Limiting
-
- GitHub imposes a rate limit on all API clients. Unauthenticated clients are
- limited to 60 requests per hour, while authenticated clients can make up to
- 5,000 requests per hour. The Search API has a custom rate limit. Unauthenticated
- clients are limited to 10 requests per minute, while authenticated clients
- can make up to 30 requests per minute. To receive the higher rate limit when
- making calls that are not issued on behalf of a user,
- use UnauthenticatedRateLimitedTransport.
-
- The returned Response.Rate value contains the rate limit information
- from the most recent API call. If a recent enough response isn't
- available, you can use RateLimits to fetch the most up-to-date rate
- limit data for the client.
-
- To detect an API rate limit error, you can check if its type is *github.RateLimitError:
-
- repos, _, err := client.Repositories.List(ctx, "", nil)
- if _, ok := err.(*github.RateLimitError); ok {
- log.Println("hit rate limit")
- }
-
- Learn more about GitHub rate limiting at
- https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting.
-
- Accepted Status
-
- Some endpoints may return a 202 Accepted status code, meaning that the
- information required is not yet ready and was scheduled to be gathered on
- the GitHub side. Methods known to behave like this are documented specifying
- this behavior.
-
- To detect this condition of error, you can check if its type is
- *github.AcceptedError:
-
- stats, _, err := client.Repositories.ListContributorsStats(ctx, org, repo)
- if _, ok := err.(*github.AcceptedError); ok {
- log.Println("scheduled on GitHub side")
- }
-
- Conditional Requests
-
- The GitHub API has good support for conditional requests which will help
- prevent you from burning through your rate limit, as well as help speed up your
- application. go-github does not handle conditional requests directly, but is
- instead designed to work with a caching http.Transport. We recommend using
- https://github.com/gregjones/httpcache for that.
-
- Learn more about GitHub conditional requests at
- https://developer.github.com/v3/#conditional-requests.
-
- Creating and Updating Resources
-
- All structs for GitHub resources use pointer values for all non-repeated fields.
- This allows distinguishing between unset fields and those set to a zero-value.
- Helper functions have been provided to easily create these pointers for string,
- bool, and int values. For example:
-
- // create a new private repository named "foo"
- repo := &github.Repository{
- Name: github.String("foo"),
- Private: github.Bool(true),
- }
- client.Repositories.Create(ctx, "", repo)
-
- Users who have worked with protocol buffers should find this pattern familiar.
-
- Pagination
-
- All requests for resource collections (repos, pull requests, issues, etc.)
- support pagination. Pagination options are described in the
- github.ListOptions struct and passed to the list methods directly or as an
- embedded type of a more specific list options struct (for example
- github.PullRequestListOptions). Pages information is available via the
- github.Response struct.
-
- client := github.NewClient(nil)
-
- opt := &github.RepositoryListByOrgOptions{
- ListOptions: github.ListOptions{PerPage: 10},
- }
- // get all pages of results
- var allRepos []*github.Repository
- for {
- repos, resp, err := client.Repositories.ListByOrg(ctx, "github", opt)
- if err != nil {
- return err
- }
- allRepos = append(allRepos, repos...)
- if resp.NextPage == 0 {
- break
- }
- opt.Page = resp.NextPage
- }
-
- */
- package github
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