Guide:
- Personal Access Token
- Ensure that you are logged into Github.
- Visit https://github.com/settings/tokens
- Create new token with only "public_repo" scope selected.
- Delete when no longer needed.
- Set your token as an environment variable.
- Set your username as an environment variable.
- practice repository
- Set this repo's "owner" as an environment variable. (euggo)
- Set this repo's "name" as an environment variable. (praxis)
- Request "write" access for euggo/praxis so that you can lock issues.
- Access can be granted by project admins (Greg, Nathan, Daved).
- Alternately, skip the "lock/unlock portion of the exercise.
- "github" library
- Should not have any credentials hardcoded.
- Should implement Create, Read, Update, Lock, Unlock, and Search.
- Should make using it's API as convenient as possible.
- "main" application
- Should pull credentials (user, token, owner, repo) from environment variables or flags.
- Should generally make use of your github library.
- *User/Token usage: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request.SetBasicAuth
- *User/Token advanced: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16673766/basic-http-auth-in-go
- *Pin Github API ver
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/vnd.github.v3.text-match+json")) - *Documentation is your friend: https://developer.github.com/v3/
- We're particularly interested in "issues" (https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/)