Repositories API call require username param

[octokit]

Repositories API call require username param

[pengwynn]

Patches are always welcome. Just to understand the question, do you mean passing in a username to build the path to the repo? The repo argument to most of those calls is a Repository type, which represents both the user and the repo name.

https://github.com/pengwynn/octokit/blob/master/lib/octokit/repository.rb

[bmuschko]

Yeah, that's what I meant. I was trying to get the languages of a specific repository. I am pretty new to Ruby so I might have missed something here. Here's an example:

client = Octokit::Client.new(:login => "bmuschko", :password => "pwd")
puts Octokit.languages("gradle-gae-plugin")

What I get as a result is something like this:

GET https://api.github.com/repos/gradle-gae-plugin//languages: 404: Not Found

Can you give me a hint on what I am doing wrong?

[pengwynn]

Try adding the username to that string:

Octokit.languages("bmuschko/gradle-gae-plugin")

or whatever the username is.

[bmuschko]

Great, thanks! That does it. This kind of led me to my question I guess. Shouldn't there be another parameter that defines the username? The method repositories for example does define one.

[catsby]

As far as Octokit client is concerned, a "Repository" in this context is a username/repo pair, as @pengwynn mentioned, referenced here https://github.com/pengwynn/octokit/blob/master/lib/octokit/repository.rb

So when you see things like this https://github.com/pengwynn/octokit/blob/master/lib/octokit/client/repositories.rb#L33-35 , here repo is something like pengwynn/octokit.

The repositories method you mention is different because we're listing repositories for a user, where as in other contexts we're referring to a single repository.

[bmuschko]

Cool, thanks for the feedback.