praxis

Guide:

• Personal Access Token
  • Ensure that you are logged into Github.
  • Visit https://github.com/settings/tokens
    • Create new token with only "public_repo" scope selected.
    • Delete when no longer needed.
  • Set your token as an environment variable.
  • Set your username as an environment variable.
• practice repository
  • Set this repo's "owner" as an environment variable. (euggo)
  • Set this repo's "name" as an environment variable. (praxis)
  • Request "write" access for euggo/praxis so that you can lock issues.
    • Access can be granted by project admins (Greg, Nathan, Daved).
    • Alternately, skip the "lock/unlock portion of the exercise.
• "github" library
  • Should not have any credentials hardcoded.
  • Should implement Create, Read, Update, Lock, Unlock, and Search.
  • Should make using it's API as convenient as possible.
• "main" application
  • Should pull credentials (user, token, owner, repo) from environment variables or flags.
  • Should generally make use of your github library.
  • *User/Token usage: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request.SetBasicAuth
  • *User/Token advanced: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16673766/basic-http-auth-in-go
  • *Pin Github API ver req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/vnd.github.v3.text-match+json"))
  • *Documentation is your friend: https://developer.github.com/v3/
    • We're particularly interested in "issues" (https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/)