Patch?

[RichardLitt]

How do I use a PATCH method?

Example: octo.repos(result.owner.login, result.name).update({
description: 'test'
})

Thanks.

[philschatz]

It depends on if you are using callbacks or promises.

With promises:

octo.repos(result.owner.login, result.name).update({description: 'test'})
.then(function(updatedObject) {
  console.log(updatedObject);
});

With callbacks:

function cb(err, updatedObject) {
  console.log(updatedObj);
};
octo.repos(result.owner.login, result.name).update({description: 'test'}, cb);

[RichardLitt]

Hmm. I've tried that.

Repo: https://github.com/RichardLitt/gh-description

node cli.js RichardLitt/awesome-nomad test

It's still not working. :/ Thoughts?

[philschatz]

Ah, according to https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#edit it seems GitHub requires the name to be provided as well. Without the name I got a 422 response but once I added the name the description updated.

[RichardLitt]

So, I tried that, and it still is returning this:

{ [Error: {"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}]
  status: 404,
  json: 
   { message: 'Not Found',
     documentation_url: 'https://developer.github.com/v3' } }

I'm still not sure if this is my fault.

[RichardLitt]

The only difference between a working call and a failing one is turning .fetch() into .update({'name': 'test-repo', 'description: 'test'}). Doesn't look like it is a problem on my end.

[philschatz]

It seems the OAuth scope for the key that is generated is "public access" which is not enough to edit repo details. It would need to have either public_repo or repo. See https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes for more details.

[RichardLitt]

Fixed by deleting the config file and then adding scopes. Didn't work previously due to not overwriting the ghauth config file. Thanks!

[RichardLitt]

I have the same Not Found bug again, and I have no idea how to diagnose it. How can I find out what URL is being used to hit the GitHub server?

[RichardLitt]

Fixed by deleting the config file and then adding scopes. Didn't work previously due to not overwriting the ghauth config file. Thanks!

Did the same thing. Not sure why I keep running up against this. Not this module's bug at all.

<3 thank you for helping. Sorry for being a bit obstinate.