LATEST_VERSION_NOTES.rst

1.0.0a2: 2015-07-14

Breaking Changes (since 1.0.0a1)

• When you download a release asset, instead of returning True or False, it will return the name of the file in which it saved the asset.
• The download method on github3.pulls.PullFile instances has been removed.
• The contents method on github3.pulls.PullFile instances now return instances of github3.repos.contents.Contents.
• Replace Repository#comments_on_commit with RepoCommit#comments.

Features Added (since 1.0.0a1)

• You can now download a file in a pull request to a file on disk.
• You can retrieve the contents of the file in a pull request as bytes.
• Add id attribute to github3.repos.milestone.Milestone.
• Add support for sort, direction, and since parameters to the comments method on github3.issues.Issue.
• Add branch argument to update and delete methods on github3.repos.contents.Contents.
• Add permissions attribute to github3.repos.repo.Repository object to retrieve the permissions for a specific repository.
• Allow a deployment to be retrieved by its id.
• Add the delete method to the github3.repos.release.Asset class.

Bugs Fixed (since 1.0.0a1)

• Pull request files can now be downloaded even when the repository is private.
• Fix exception when merging a pull request with an empty commit message.
• Add missing Issue events.
• Coerce review comment positions to integers.

1.0.0a1: 2014-12-07

1.0.0 is a huge release. It includes a great deal of changes to github3.py. It is suggested you read the following release notes very carefully.

Breaking Changes

• Organization#add_member has been changed. The second parameter has been changed to team_id and now expects an integer.
• Organization#add_repository has been changed. The second parameter has been changed to team_id and now expects an integer.
• All methods and functions starting with iter_ have been renamed.

Old name	New name
github3.iter_all_repos	github3.all_repositories
github3.iter_all_users	github3.all_users
github3.iter_events	github3.all_events
github3.iter_followers	github3.followers_of
github3.iter_following	github3.followed_by
github3.iter_repo_issues	github3.issues_on
github3.iter_orgs	github3.organizations_with
github3.iter_user_repos	github3.repositories_by
github3.iter_starred	github3.starred_by
github3.iter_subscriptions	github3.subscriptions_for
Deployment#iter_statuses	Deployment#statuses
Gist#iter_comments	Gist#comments
Gist#iter_commits	Gist#commits
Gist#iter_files	Gist#files
Gist#iter_forks	Gist#forks
GitHub#iter_all_repos	GitHub#all_repositories
GitHub#iter_all_users	GitHub#all_users
GitHub#iter_authorizations	GitHub#authorizations
GitHub#iter_emails	GitHub#emails
GitHub#iter_events	GitHub#events
GitHub#iter_followers	GitHub#{followers,followers_of}
GitHub#iter_following	GitHub#{following,followed_by}
GitHub#iter_gists	GitHub#{gists,gists_by,public_gists}
GitHub#iter_notifications	GitHub#notifications
GitHub#iter_org_issues	GitHub#organization_issues
GitHub#iter_issues	GitHub#issues
GitHub#iter_user_issues	GitHub#user_issues
GitHub#iter_repo_issues	GitHub#issues_on
GitHub#iter_keys	GitHub#keys
GitHub#iter_orgs	GitHub#{organizations,organizations_with}
GitHub#iter_repos	GitHub#reposistories
GitHub#iter_user_repos	GitHub#repositories_by
GitHub#iter_user_teams	GitHub#user_teams
Issue#iter_comments	Issue#comments
Issue#iter_events	Issue#events
Issue#iter_labels	Issue#labels
Milestone#iter_labels	Milestone#labels
Organization#iter_members	Organization#members
Organization#iter_public_members	Organization#public_members
Organization#iter_repos	Organization#repositories
Organization#iter_teams	Organization#teams
PullRequest#iter_comments	PullRequest#review_comments
PullRequest#iter_commits	PullRequest#commits
PullRequest#iter_files	PullRequest#files
PullRequest#iter_issue_comments	PullRequest#issue_comments
Team#iter_members	Team#members
Team#iter_repos	Team#repositories
Repository#iter_assignees	Repository#assignees
Repository#iter_branches	Repository#branches
Repository#iter_code_frequency	Repository#code_frequency
Repository#iter_collaborators	Repository#collaborators
Repository#iter_comments	Repository#comments
Repository#iter_comments_on_commit	RepoCommit#comments
Repository#iter_commit_activity	Repository#commit_activity
Repository#iter_commits	Repository#commits
Repository#iter_contributor_statistics	Repository#contributor_statistics
Repository#iter_contributors	Repository#contributors
Repository#iter_forks	Repository#forks
Repository#iter_hooks	Repository#hooks
Repository#iter_issues	Repository#issues
Repository#iter_issue_events	Repository#issue_events
Repository#iter_keys	Repository#keys
Repository#iter_labels	Repository#labels
Repository#iter_languages	Repository#languages
Repository#iter_milestones	Repository#milestones
Repository#iter_network_events	Repository#network_events
Repository#iter_notifications	Repository#notifications
Repository#iter_pages_builds	Repository#pages_builds
Repository#iter_pulls	Repository#pull_requests
Repository#iter_refs	Repository#refs
Repository#iter_releases	Repository#releases
Repository#iter_stargazers	Repository#stargazers
Repository#iter_subscribers	Repository#subscribers
Repository#iter_statuses	Repository#statuses
Repository#iter_tags	Repository#tags
Repository#iter_teams	Repository#teams
Repository#iter_teams	Repository#teams
User#iter_events	User#events
User#iter_followers	User#followers
User#iter_following	User#following
User#iter_keys	User#keys
User#iter_org_events	User#organization_events
User#iter_received_events	User#received_events
User#iter_orgs	User#organizations
User#iter_starred	User#starred_repositories
User#iter_subscriptions	User#subscriptions

• github3.login has been simplified and split into two functions:
  • github3.login serves the majority use case and only provides an authenticated GitHub object.
  • github3.enterprise_login allows GitHub Enterprise users to log into their service.
• GitHub#iter_followers was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#followers_of which iterates over all of the followers of a user whose username you provide
  • GitHub#followers which iterates over all of the followers of the authenticated user
• GitHub#iter_following was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#followed_by which iterates over all of the users followed by the username you provide
  • GitHub#following which iterates over all of the users followed by the authenticated user
• GitHub#iter_gists was split into three functions:
  • GitHub#public_gists which iterates over all of the public gists on GitHub
  • GitHub#gists_for which iterates over all the public gists of a specific user
  • GitHub#gists which iterates over the authenticated users gists
• GitHub#iter_orgs was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#organizations which iterates over the authenticated user's organization memberships
  • GitHub#organizations_with which iterates over the given user's organization memberships
• GitHub#iter_subscriptions was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#subscriptions_for which iterates over an arbitrary user's subscriptions
  • GitHub#subscriptions which iterates over the authenticated user's subscriptions
• GitHub#iter_starred was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#starred_by which iterates over an arbitrary user's stars
  • GitHub#starred which iterates over the authenticated user's stars
• GitHub#user was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#user which retrieves an arbitrary user's information
  • GitHub#me which retrieves the authenticated user's information
• GitHub#update_user has been renamed to GitHub#update_me and only uses 1 API call now. It was renamed to reflect the addition of GitHub#me.
• The legacy watching API has been removed:
  • GitHub#subscribe
  • GitHub#unsubscribe
  • GitHub#is_subscribed
• GitHub#create_repo was renamed to GitHub#create_repository
• GitHub#delete_key was removed. To delete a key retrieve it with GitHub#key and then call Key#delete.
• Repository#set_subscription was split into two simpler functions
  • Repository#subscribe subscribes the authenticated user to the repository's notifications
  • Repository#ignore ignores notifications from the repository for the authenticated user
• Repository#contents was split into two simpler functions
  • Repository#file_contents returns the contents of a file object
  • Repository#directory_contents returns the contents of files in a directory.
• Organization#add_repo and Team#add_repo have been renamed to Organization#add_repository and Team#add_repository respectively.
• Organization#create_repo has been renamed to Organization#create_repository. It no longer accepts has_downloads. It now accepts license_template.
• Organization#remove_repo has been renamed to Organization#remove_repository. It now accepts team_id instead of team.
• github3.ratelimit_remaining was removed
• GitHub instances can no longer be used as context managers
• The pull request API has changed.
  • The links attribute now contains the raw _links attribute from the API.
  • The merge_commit_sha attribute has been removed since it was deprecated in the GitHub API.
  • To present a more consistent universal API, certain attributes have been renamed.

Old name	New attribute name
PullFile.additions	additions_count
PullFile.deletions	deletions_count
PullFile.changes	changes_count
PullRequest.additions	additions_count
PullRequest.comments	comments_count
PullRequest.commits	commits_count
PullRequest.deletions	deletions_count
PullRequest.review_comments	review_comments_count

• The Gist API has changed.

  • The forks and files attributes that used to keep count of the number of forks and files have been removed.
  • The comments attribute which provided the number of comments on a gist, has been renamed to comments_count.
  • The is_public method has been removed since it just returned the Gist.public attribute.

• Most instances of login as a parameter have been changed to username for clarity and consistency. This affects the following methods:

  • github3.authorize
  • github3.repositories_by
  • github3.user
  • GitHub
  • GitHub#authorize
  • GitHub#follow
  • GitHub#is_following
  • GitHub#is_starred
  • GitHub#issue
  • GitHub#followers_of
  • GitHub#followed_by
  • GitHub#gists_by
  • GitHub#issues_on
  • GitHub#organizations_with
  • GitHub#starred_by
  • GitHub#subscriptions_for
  • GitHub#user
  • GitHubEnterprise
  • Issue#assign
  • Organization#add_member
  • Organization#is_member
  • Organization#is_public_member
  • Organization#remove_member
  • Repository#add_collaborator
  • Repository#is_assignee
  • Repository#is_collaborator
  • Repository#remove_collaborator
  • Team#add_member
  • Team#is_member
  • User#is_assignee_on
  • User#is_following

• Repository.stargazers is now Repository.stargazers_count (conforming with the attribute name returned by the API).

• The Issue API has changed in order to provide a more consistent attribute API. Issue.comments is now Issue.comments_count and returns the number of comments on an issue.

• The Issue.labels attribute has also been renamed. It is now available from Issue.original_labels. This will provide the user with the list of Label objects that was returned by the API. To retrieve an updated list of labels, the user can now use Issue#labels, e.g.

  i = github3.issue('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py', 30)
  labels = list(i.labels())
  

• The Organization and User APIs have changed to become more consistent with the rest of the library and GitHub API. The following attribute names have been changed

Old name	New attribute name
Organization.followers	followers_count
Organization.following	following_count
Organization.public_repos	public_repos_count
User.followers	followers_count
User.following	following_count
User.public_repos	public_repos_count

• The Release.assets attribute has been renamed to Release.original_assets. To retrieve up-to-date assets, use the Release#assets method.
• The Authorization API has changed. The update method has been split into three methods: add_scopes, remove_scopes, replace_scopes. This highlights the fact that Authorization#update used to require more than one request.
• Event#is_public has been removed. Simply check the event's public attribute instead.
• Repository#delete_file and Repository#update_file have been removed. Simply delete or update a file using the Contents API.
• Content#delete now returns a dictionary that matches the JSON returned by the API. It contains the Contents and the Commit associated with the deletion.
• Content#update now returns a dictionary that matches the JSON returned by the API. It contains the Contents and the Commit associated with the deletion.
• Issue.pull_request has been renamed to Issue.pull_request_urls

New Features

• Most objects now have a session attribute. This is a subclass of a Session object from requests. This can now be used in conjunction with a third-party caching mechanism. The suggested caching library is cachecontrol.

• All object's url attribute are now available.

• You can now retrieve a repository by its id with GitHub#repository_with_id.

• You can call the pull_request method on an Issue now to retrieve the associated pull request:

  import github3
  
  i = github3.issue('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py', 301)
  pr = i.pull_request()