Note that this is an API-breaking change but should have minimal
impact on users of this package due to the nice inference
properties of the Go programming language.
Bumped `libraryVersion` to `2` due to API-breaking change as
discussed in #376.
Fixes#180.
Change-Id: Ib386135e6b8f306d1f54278968c576f3ceccc4e7
- Add new options struct to AddCollaborator (BREAKING CHANGE)
- Add Permissions field to User struct, which gets populated when
calling ListCollaborators
This includes all of the methods mentioned in this blog post:
https://developer.github.com/changes/2014-03-18-paginating-method-changes/
as well as a handful of others I found. Sadly, this is a breaking
change for many of these methods because it changes the method
signature, but with yesterday's API change these methods are now broken
anyway. :(
These tests exercise the code path in all of our API methods where an
error is returned from github.NewRequest(). There are actually only two
ways to trigger an error here:
- provide a URL which can't be parsed
- provide a request body which can't be JSON encoded
In theory, it's also possible that http.NewRequest() could return an
error which would make its way up the stack, but in practice this will
never happen. That's because http.NewRequest(), as currently
implemented, will only ever return an error if it's unable to parse the
provided URL. But since we're simply passing the output of
URL.String(), we know that it will never be unparseable. That leaves
the two options above.
For methods that don't have a request body (which is to say, most), all
we can do is force a URL parse error, which is most easily accomplished
by putting an unescaped "%" in the URL path. This works for methods
that take a string input parameter that is directly added to the path.
If there are no string parameters to the function, or if they're not
part of the URL path, then we're mostly out of luck. In some of those
cases, we can still try to force a JSON encoding error, but otherwise
there will be no way to exercise this code path in those methods.
Of course in this case, the fact that we can't test the error case means
that the error case isn't actually possible. Nevertheless, I don't want
to ignore the error entirely in case some future change in the
implementation of github.NewRequest() or http.NewRequest() might
introduce a new possibility for erroring out.
What we're testing here is not likely to be a common error case, and
adding all of these tests to check for it in each method may be a bit
OCD, but I'd rather have the test coverage.
Like a51d6b4303, this change makes me sad, mainly because it is a
breaking change for all clients, and makes common tasks like reading
data out of structs slightly more work, with no direct benefit. Notably,
developers will need to make sure and check for nil values before trying
to dereference these pointers. Sadly, the change is still necessary, as
is more fully explained in issue #19. We can make the nil pointer
checks a little easier by adding some Get* funcs like goprotobuf does.
I spent a lot of time over the last few weeks exploring this change
(switching fields to pointers) versus the much larger change of using
protocol buffers for all GitHub data types. While the goprotobuf
library is very mature and feature-rich (it's used heavily inside of
Google), it's the wrong tool for this task, since we're not actually
using the proto wire format. While it does address the immediate
concern in #19, it makes way too many other things terribly awkward.
One of the biggest drawbacks of this change is that it will make the
string output from fmt.Printf("%v") next to useless, since all pointer
values are displayed as their memory address. To handle that, I'll be
writing a custom String() function for these structs that is heavily
inspired by goprotobuf and internals from go's fmt package.
when initializing a slice of concrete structs, it's not necessary to
declare the type of each item in the slice, since the compiler knows
what you mean.
Glenn Lewis
Will Norris
Will Norris
Billy Lynch