Cannot call getReleaseWorkItemsRefs using the pipeline OAUTH token

[rfennell]

Environment

Azure DevOps Services
azure-devops-node-api version: 8.1.1

Issue Description

I am try to programmatically get the WIs that are linked to a GitHub commit using the AB#123 format (provided by the Azure DevOps Boards connector for GitHub) inside a pipeline task.

1. Create a build pipeline based on a GitHub repo that is linked to Azure DevOps Boards
2. Commit and push stuff with "AB#XX" references in commit messages to GitHub
3. Create an Azure DevOps Release based on build artifact with my task included
4. If, in a custom pipeline task, I use the following Node API call

let workitems = await releaseApi.getReleaseWorkItemsRefs(teamProject, currentReleaseID, pastReleaseID);

• If my Node API is setup to use a user generated PAT the call works and it returns the expected WIs.
• If my Node API I setup to use the Pipeline’s Access Token I get an error

##[error]Error: You do not have permissions to perform this operation on the service connection. An Endpoint Administrator should add you to the Endpoint Readers group of this service connection

Expected behaviour

I would expect to be able to add the pipeline account using OAUTH to have access to this endpoint

Actual behaviour

When I settings I look at the Boards > GitHub connections I can see what I assume is the correct endpoint connector, but it provides no option to alter who has rights to use it.

Is there a way to grant access to this connector to the pipeline service account?

If there is, which security page is it on?

[damccorm]

Hey @rfennell this looks like an issue with the API itself, not this library (this library is just an autogenerated wrapper). Could you file it at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/spaces/21/index.html so that it gets routed to the right team?

[rfennell]

@damccorm thanks for the info, I will log the issue there