client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents for root not currently possible.

[DavidStrickland0]

Task<IReadOnlyList> GetAllContents(string owner, string name, string path);
Will currently only work with subdirectories ie:
client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents("octokit", "octokit.net", "Octokit") returns 18 items.
However
client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents("octokit", "octokit.net", "") Throws a ArgumentException("String cannot be empty", name)

For a quick fixed I hacked GetAllContents as follows locally but a better option is probably needed.

public async Task<IReadOnlyList<RepositoryContent>> GetAllContents(string owner, string name, string path)
        {
            Ensure.ArgumentNotNullOrEmptyString(owner, "owner");
            Ensure.ArgumentNotNullOrEmptyString(name, "name");
            //Ensure.ArgumentNotNullOrEmptyString(path, "path");
            System.Uri url;
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(path))
            {
                url = ApiUrls.RepositoryContent(owner, name);
            }
            else
            {
                url = ApiUrls.RepositoryContent(owner, name, path);
            }
            return await ApiConnection.GetAll<RepositoryContent>(url);
        }

[SplitInfinity]

I am able to get the contents of a repository's root directory by passing in "/" as the path, but I am unsure if this is due to changes made after this issue was opened.

[ostruk]

👍

"/" only works if you're retrieving master branch. If you're retrieving some other branch it defaults to master branch, because the generated url is actually invalid: "contents//?ref=branch-name". Remove the check for empty string when specifying path.

[naveensrinivasan]

You could get all the contents of the branch using the overload client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents which takes the reference as the last parameter.

I am able to get all the contents of the branch and master including the sub-directories. Here is a sample.

async Task Main(string[] args)
{
    var owner = "octokit";
    var reponame = "octokit.net";

    GitHubClient client = new GitHubClient(new Octokit.ProductHeaderValue("Octokit.samples"));
    client.Credentials = new Credentials(Util.GetPassword("github"));
    var branchcontents = await client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents(owner,reponame,"/Octokit.Reactive/Properties","codeformatter");
    var mastercontents = await client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents(owner,reponame,"/Octokit.Reactive/Properties");
    branchcontents .Dump();
    mastercontents.Dump();
    branchcontents = await client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents(owner,reponame,"/","codeformatter");
    mastercontents = await client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents(owner,reponame,"/");

    branchcontents .Dump();
    mastercontents.Dump();
}

[ostruk]

I have 7 files on my master branch, and 6 on my custom branch ("ostruk-branch" does not have "added.js").

When I call

var all = await client.Repository.Content.GetAllContents("UW-demo", "multiJs", "/", "ostruk-branch");

I get 7 files, same as if I called without "ostruk-branch". When I inspect the code, I can see it attempts to make a call to

https://api.github.com/repos/UW-demo/multiJs/contents//?ref=ostruk-branch

where you can see that all files have "?ref=master" by them, indicating they are being pulled from the master branch. If I change the url to

https://api.github.com/repos/UW-demo/multiJs/contents/?ref=ostruk-branch

, which is equivalent to passing "'" for path argument, then response is correct.

I'm using 0.16.0.

Thanks!

[naveensrinivasan]

@ostruk Yes you are right. It is a bug.

[jamesqo]

Can we reopen this issue? The fix was accidentally undone during #1348 and I'm running into it again.

[ryangribble]

Whoops!

Need to dig into this to see why there isn't an integration test that failed

[ryangribble]

@jamesqo just looking at this one... are you referring to the fact that GetAllContents(string owner, string name, string path) is enforcing path to not be null or empty?

If that's the case can't you just call GetAllContents(string owner, string name) overload instead?

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