Github download release tasks successfully sees tag and repos but downloads nothing

Hi,

using cloud azure-devops and the github download release. tried on both the gui and the yaml pipeline.

When i try and download a tagged release the task will find the possible tags and completes successfully. but with the message:

Starting: Download GitHub Release
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Task         : Download GitHub Release
Description  : Downloads a GitHub Release from a repository
Version      : 0.160.2
Author       : Microsoft Corporation
Help         : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-github-release
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Downloading assets of release 'v2.2' from: https://api.github.com/repos/xxx/xxx/releases/28780998/assets
Total Files: 0, Processed: 0, Skipped: 0, Failed: 0, Download time: 1.006 secs, Download size: 0Bytes
Successfully downloaded release assets to 'd:\a\1\a'
Finishing: Download GitHub Release

[craig-johnston]

The problem appears to be the code here: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/blob/master/Tasks/DownloadGitHubReleaseV0/main.ts#L187 It does not support pagination and the default number of assets per page is 30 according to the documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/assets#list-release-assets Supporting pagination looks difficult as the actual fetch and handling is in another package (ArtifactEngine) - https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-extensions/blob/master/Extensions/ArtifactEngine

A quick hack would be to up the limit to 100 by adding a per_page=100 query param to the URL.

[bvdwalt]

I also have this probelm, I’m using a private GitHub repo, but I have the GitHub Connection set properly on the Download GitHub Release task in my Azure build Pipeline.

Mine also just shows this: Downloading assets of release ‘v1.0.0’ from: https://api.github.com/repos/***/***/releases/***/assets Total Files: 0, Processed: 0, Skipped: 0, Failed: 0, Download time: 1.009 secs, Download size: 0Bytes Successfully downloaded release assets to ‘D:\a\1\s/…’

I have seen some mention somewhere about the files in your assets on the GitHub Release, but no real indication of what file should then be there for the Azure pipeline to get the file. Here is the Closed issue I found: Download GitHub Release with private repo fails #10994 as well as the mentioned comment here