Upload a zip file as content for InputGitTreeElement

[tsiq-cejas]

This is a question:

I am trying to upload zip files to my repo by creating a tree with a bunch of InputGitTreeElement elements. Some of these InputGitTreeElement are zip files. InputGitTreeElement only accepts 'str' for content. How can I do this?

thanks!

[sfdye]

What's your original use case? Just uploading a file to your repo? If so, there is a upload api you can use. (but limited to upload one file at a time)

[tsiq-cejas]

First, I forgot to say that I am using Python3.
I am want to upload a bunch of changed json files plus some zip files as one commit:

repo.create_git_commit(commit_msg, end_tree, parents=[commit.commit])

end_tree is a list of InputGitTreeElement. Each one corresponds to a file. My problem becomes that the 'content' of InputGitTreeElement can only be of type 'str' or 'unicode'. When I load a file to memory I have type 'bytes'. What is the right way to encode those bytes to str or unicode so InputGitTreeElement can upload my file?

thanks!

[sfdye]

You can use blob.

import base64 

blob = repo.create_git_blob("XXX", encoding='utf-8')
blob = repo.get_git_blob(sha=blob.sha)
tree_element = InputGitTreeElement(path='', mode='100644', type='blob', content=base64.b64decode(blob.content).decode('utf-8'))

[tsiq-cejas]

It wouldn't be the same problem? create_git_blob expects string as content.
url points to a zip downloadable url.

resp = requests.get(url)
blob = repo.create_git_blob(resp.content, encoding='utf-8')
blob = repo.get_git_blob(sha=blob.sha)
tree_element = InputGitTreeElement(path='', mode='100644', type='blob', content=base64.b64decode(blob.content).decode('utf-8'))  


...
    repo.create_git_blob(resp.content, encoding='utf-8')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/github/Repository.py", line 764, in create_git_blob
    assert isinstance(content, str), content
AssertionError: `b'PK\x03\x04\n\x00\x00...`

[sfdye]

replace resp.content with resp.content.decode("utf-8"）

[tsiq-cejas]

Is not able to decode it as utf-8:

blob = repo.create_git_blob(resp.content.decode('utf-8'), encoding='utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9c in position 43: invalid start byte

It is a zip file. Should be expected to be encoded in utf-8?

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[cosme12]

Did you manage to solve this? I'm having the same problem. I can't find a way to upload a png file.

[asfixia]

I have the same problem, i cant send a simple image file.
This issue is close to this i guess: #621

[smbanaie]

You Can Try This :

data = base64.b64encode(open(file_name, "rb").read())
path = "{}/{}/{}".format(now.year, now.month, "tweets.zip")
blob = repo.create_git_blob(data.decode("utf-8"), "base64")
element = InputGitTreeElement(path=path, mode='100644', type='blob', sha=blob.sha)
element_list.append(element)
tree = repo.create_git_tree(element_list, base_tree)
parent = repo.get_git_commit(master_sha)
commit = repo.create_git_commit("commit_message", tree, [parent])
master_ref.edit(commit.sha)```

[OpetherMB]

is there any possible solution to this thread?
when i try to push my zip file i get this error :

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/aird/Documents/bdd/1_week_road/push_data.py", line 44, in <module> element = InputGitTreeElement(file_names[i], '100644', 'blob', content=base64.b64decode(data).decode('utf-8')) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 1: invalid start byte