Problem when creating a gist

[raed667]

Following the documentation, when I try to create a gist in the browser using the following code:

       var gh = new GitHub();
        var gist = gh.getGist(); // not a gist yet
        gist.create({
            public: true,
            description: 'TEST',
            files: {
                "file1.txt": {
                    contents: "Aren't gists great!"
                }
            }
        }).then(function (httpResponse) {
            // Promises!
            var gist = httpResponse.data;
            gist.read(function (err, gist, xhr) {
                // if no error occurred then err == null

                // gist == httpResponse.data

                // xhr == httpResponse
            });
        });

This returns an error POST https://api.github.com/gists 422 (Unprocessable Entity)

Can you reproduce? Any idea why?

[clayreimann]

I can see two issues with the snippet you posted:

1. Unautenticated users cannot create gists
2. You redefine gist in your promise handler so gist.read won't work

Other than that you appear to be doing the same thing we do in the tests to create a gist, so it should work.

[clayreimann]

@RaedsLab Any more thoughts here?

[guumaster]

I'm also getting an error, but it seems a 404 error:

Here the code:

var gh = new GitHub({ token: MY_TOKEN });

var gist = gh.getGist();

gist.create({
   public: true,
   description: 'My first gist',
   files: {
      "file1.txt": {
         contents: "Aren't gists great!"
      }
   }
})

The lib is posting this:

  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://api.github.com/gists',

  headers: 
     authorization: 'token e77..........VALID_TOKEN......0c',
     'content-type': 'application/json'

  body: 
     description: 'the description for this gist',
     public: true,
     files: { 'file1.txt': { content: 'String file contents' } } },

  json: true 

And the response is:

{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#create-a-gist"
}

[clayreimann]

@guumaster Are you sure your token has the gist permission? Our tests indicate that we can successfully create gists using code almost identical to yours.

[guumaster]

sure, I'm using it with raw ajax calls and it works.

[clayreimann]

@guumaster @RaedsLab This is probably due to a mistake in the example from the readme reported in #374. Can you try with:

{
   public: true,
   description: 'My first gist',
   files: {
      "file1.txt": {
         content: "Aren't gists great!"
      }
   }
}

[AurelioDeRosa]

This issue has been fixed, so I'm closing it.