Git Hub API for Java

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What is this?

This library defines an object oriented representation of the GitHub API. By "object oriented" we mean there are classes that correspond to the domain model of GitHub (such as GHUser and GHRepository), operations that act on them as defined as methods (such as GHUser.follow()), and those object references are used in favor of using string handle (such as GHUser.isMemberOf(GHOrganization) instead of GHUser.isMemberOf(String))

The library supports both github.com and GitHub Enterprise.

Most of the GitHub APIs are covered, although there are some corners that are still not yet implemented.

Sample Usage

GitHub github = GitHub.connect();
GHRepository repo = github.createRepository(
  "new-repository","this is my new repository",
  "http://www.kohsuke.org/",true/*public*/);
repo.addCollaborators(github.getUser("abayer"),github.getUser("rtyler"));
repo.delete();

Credential

This library allows the caller to supply the credential as parameters, but it also defines a common convention so that applications using this library will look at the consistent location. In this convention, the library looks at ~/.github property file, which should have the following two values:

login=kohsuke
password=012345678

Alternatively, you can have just the OAuth token in this file:

oauth=4d98173f7c075527cb64878561d1fe70

OkHttp

This library comes with a pluggable connector to use different HTTP client implementations through HttpConnector. In particular, this means you can use OkHttp, so we can make use of it's HTTP response cache. Making a conditional request against the GitHub API and receiving a 304 response does not count against the rate limit.

The following code shows an example of how to set up persistent cache on the disk:

Cache cache = new Cache(cacheDirectory, 10 * 1024 * 1024); // 10MB cache
GitHub gitHub = GitHubBuilder.fromCredentials()
    .withConnector(new OkHttpConnector(new OkUrlFactory(new OkHttpClient().setCache(cache))))
    .build();