Extension generates lots of API calls against GitHub

👋 @KnisterPeter !

It looks like as if vscode-github v0.27.1 generates a lot of API calls against GitHub in certain cases. Here are the counted API calls from a single VSCode user working on a single repo over a single day on my GitHub Enterprise instance:

32328 /api/v3/repos/demo-org/demo-repo
 9978 /api/v3/repos/demo-org/demo-repo/pulls/123
11174 /api/v3/repos/demo-org/demo-repo/pulls?state=open

That’s >55k requests per day. IOW more than 2 requests per second in a 8h work day 😃 ! While github.com can probably handle this load just fine, this might be a problem for GitHub Enterprise users.

Do you have an idea what could cause the excessive API usage in the extension?

/cc @terrorobe @b4mboo

[KnisterPeter]

Release is out. Please keep an eye on the request metrics the next days. Any report back is greatly appreciated.

[KnisterPeter]

No, even for bigger teams the repo data should be very stable. It contains the following information:

export interface GithubRepositoryStruct {
  owner: {
    login: string;
  };
  name: string;
  full_name: string;
  default_branch: string;
  allow_rebase_merge?: boolean;
  allow_squash_merge?: boolean;
  allow_merge_commit?: boolean;
  html_url: string;
  parent?: GithubRepositoryStruct;
}