Support all available endpoints for Github App with preview request

Not able to access all available endpoints with Github App. Only certain endpoints that are accessible because they have this custom media type set internally.

According to this doc, accessing the Github API with Github App requires custom media type application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json. Currently, there isn’t a way to set this.

[timja]

I’m looking at adding GitHub app support to the github-branch-source-plugin. I have it working hardcoding the Oauth token so this will be very helpful.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I’m very interested by this @timja (and have Jenkins act as a GitHub app to read repos / update status). Let me know if / how I can help.

@ojacques I finally got back to this, there’s a functional PR here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/github-branch-source-plugin/pull/269 Still needs a bit more work and a github-api-plugin release

[timja]

I’m looking at adding GitHub app support to the github-branch-source-plugin. I have it working hardcoding the Oauth token so this will be very helpful.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I’m very interested by this @timja (and have Jenkins act as a GitHub app to read repos / update status). Let me know if / how I can help.

I got distracted from this and haven’t got back to it recently, I’ll try get back to it next week otherwise there’s a branch here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/github-branch-source-plugin/compare/master...timja:github-app-support?expand=1

It needs docs, tests and adjusting the api it calls to check whether the token is valid, currently it tries to retrieve the current user’s details which doesn’t work for a github app. It’s quite a nice check though as you can show in the UI “authenticated as timja-bot”

But the code does work as is, (or at least it worked before I just merged master and bumped to the latest release of github-api)