Error fetching example contracts from soroban-examples repo message pop up every single time I use soroban cli

[tenuki]

Error fetching example contracts from soroban-examples repo message pop up every single time I use soroban cli

What version are you using?

user@david-pc18:/tmp$ soroban --version
Error fetching example contracts from soroban-examples repo
Error fetching example contracts from soroban-examples repo
soroban 20.3.1 (ae5446f63ca8a275e61912019199254d598f3bd5)
soroban-env 20.2.1 (18a10592853d9edf4e341b565b0b1638f95f0393)
soroban-env interface version 85899345920
stellar-xdr 20.1.0 (8b9d623ef40423a8462442b86997155f2c04d3a1)
xdr curr (b96148cd4acc372cc9af17b909ffe4b12c43ecb6)

What did you do?

Installed soroban-cli following webpage instructions.

What did you expect to see?

A simple output message:

user@david-pc18:/tmp$ soroban --version
soroban 20.3.1 (ae5446f63ca8a275e61912019199254d598f3bd5)
soroban-env 20.2.1 (18a10592853d9edf4e341b565b0b1638f95f0393)
soroban-env interface version 85899345920
stellar-xdr 20.1.0 (8b9d623ef40423a8462442b86997155f2c04d3a1)
xdr curr (b96148cd4acc372cc9af17b909ffe4b12c43ecb6)

What did you see instead?

A messy output message with error I originally don't know why happens. Like this:

user@david-pc18:/tmp$ soroban --version
Error fetching example contracts from soroban-examples repo
Error fetching example contracts from soroban-examples repo
soroban 20.3.1 (ae5446f63ca8a275e61912019199254d598f3bd5)
soroban-env 20.2.1 (18a10592853d9edf4e341b565b0b1638f95f0393)
soroban-env interface version 85899345920
stellar-xdr 20.1.0 (8b9d623ef40423a8462442b86997155f2c04d3a1)
xdr curr (b96148cd4acc372cc9af17b909ffe4b12c43ecb6)

Why does this happens?

Well, internally soroban-cli is fetching this webpage: https://api.github.com/repos/stellar/soroban-examples/git/trees/main?recursive=1, and I don't know why, but it seems I'm getting problems to fetch that page:

user@david-pc18:/tmp$ wget 'https://api.github.com/repos/stellar/soroban-examples/git/trees/main?recursive=1'
--2024-02-29 16:45:08--  https://api.github.com/repos/stellar/soroban-examples/git/trees/main?recursive=1
Resolving api.github.com (api.github.com)... 20.201.28.148
Connecting to api.github.com (api.github.com)|20.201.28.148|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 rate limit exceeded
2024-02-29 16:45:08 ERROR 403: rate limit exceeded.

And then I realize the problem arouse because I've made a long script using soroban-cli tool which is all the time fetching that page..

It seems to me a bad idea to fetch a page on every invocation. Also, I don't want to know how it feels the experience of using this being offline.. ( scenario? developing against a locally deployed node..).

Problem is here: ../.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/soroban-cli-20.3.1/src/commands/contract/init.rs

[willemneal]

Thanks for reporting this. We are working to move this check to compile time.