No "Watchers" available in Octokit.net?

[tang-jason]

Using
client.Search.SearchRepo(new SearchRepositoriesRequest(searchTerm));

I don't seem to find "watchers" listed from the repos that I pulled. Is this available/implemented in Octokit?

[ryangribble]

Assuming I am understanding what you're referring to, I believe the API field name (and hence the octokit member name) is StargazersCount (on the Repository class)

[tang-jason]

@ryangribble Isn't the StargazersCount referring to "Star". Take octokit for example, it has

Watch: 123
Star: 1052
Fork: 531

"Watch" is the one I am looking for.

[ryangribble]

Ah sorry, indeed you are correct

There is a watchers_count field in the API response that is not currently implemented in octokit.net. It should be a simple change, just adding a member called WatchersCount to the Repository object

Typically missing fields like this are added as people run into them, but I would actually like to proactively add useful missing fields. I started the first step by auditing API response fields that are missing from our response model classes in #1400 (and sure enough, these watcher fields are listed)

[ryangribble]

Hey so I actually stumbled upon an old issue #699 that explains this WatchersCount property was actually deprecated and SubscribersCount is the field you want to use for this... But then SubscribersCount field was also deprecated/removed in issue #736. So apparently the "correct" way to retrieve this info is using the "Watchers" API WatchedClient.GetAllWatchers() instead.

Although, since the API response still include the SubscribersCount field (showing the correct value of 125 for this repo, for example) and the linked blog in #699 mentions they will be supported indefinitely in API v3, perhaps it would be OK to add the field back in again.

@shiftkey or @haacked care to comment on these historic issues? From my perspective, if SubscribersCount is still being returned AND contains the correct value, it was possibly premature to remove it and require additional API calls to get that information?

Ive created PR #1473 to add SubscribersCount field back, as well as a couple of others that were missing (as per #1400)

[shiftkey]

Assigning to myself to remember and investigate