Go-github: Issues.ListByRepo does not return the field CreatedAt

[kassyuz]

Hi, I am coding a script that gets all my issues on Github from a specific repo.
This is the script that I am using to do it

package main

import (
    "context"
    "log"

    "github.com/google/go-github/github"
    "golang.org/x/oauth2"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()
    tokenSource := oauth2.StaticTokenSource(
        &oauth2.Token{AccessToken: "my-token"},
    )
    // Authentication on Github using GH Token
    tokenClient := oauth2.NewClient(ctx, tokenSource)
    client := github.NewClient(tokenClient)

    // Parsing response from GH
    resp, _, err := client.Issues.ListByRepo(ctx, "orgID", "repoID", nil)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    log.Println(resp)
}

PS: Sorry if I did any mistake, it's my first Go script :smile:

When I checked the JSON that came from resp, _, err := client.Issues.ListByRepo(ctx, "orgID", "repoID", nil) I see one field empty, fields related to time type, it is CreatedAt and UpdatedAt (I still haven't CloseAt cause the issue is still Open :yum: )

JSON returned values:

...
Comments: 0,
CreatedAt:time.Time{wall: , ext:}, 
UpdatedAt:time.Time{wall: , ext:}, 
URL: "https://api.github...."
...

I took a look at Golang pkg/time documentation and I see it:

Programs using times should typically store and pass them as values, not pointers. That is, time variables and struct fields should be of type time.Time, not *time.Time. REF: type Time

What I could see at Issue struct definition was it uses CreatedAt *time.Time json:"created_at,omitempty" check it here

As I am at the beginner stage on Golang, I do not if it is right or it doesn't.

Could you guys clarify my question?

Thanks!

[gmlewis]

Hi @kassyuz and welcome to Go! 😄
Can you please tell us what version of this repo you are using?

[gmlewis]

Also, while I'm here, one quick way to debug things like this is to use curl to see what the full JSON response is, or just instrument github/github.go and dump out the full response. Then you can see what is coming back across the wire.

[kassyuz]

Hi @kassyuz and welcome to Go!
Can you please tell us what version of this repo you are using?

Golang: go version go1.12.5 linux/amd64
Regarding the repo version, I am using 26.0.4

[kassyuz]

Also, while I'm here, one quick way to debug things like this is to use curl to see what the full JSON response is, or just instrument github/github.go and dump out the full response. Then you can see what is coming back across the wire.

@gmlewis I have a script (in Python) invoking the same GH API function and over there I can see all values from CreatedAt and UpdatedAt

Return from GH API V3 using Python:

2019-06-14T14:20:30Z
2019-06-14T13:22:59Z

BTW, I am gonna try out instrument github/github.go and check what will be the difference.

[gmlewis]

Closing due to inactivity. Feel free to reopen if needed.