App and Installation API Objects¶

This section of the documentation covers the representations of various objects related to the Apps API.

class github3.apps.App(json, session)¶

An object representing a GitHub App.

New in version 1.2.0.

See also

GitHub Apps: Documentation for Apps on GitHub
GitHub Apps API Documentation: API documentation of what’s available about an App.

This object has the following attributes:

created_at¶: A datetime object representing the day and time the App was created.

description¶: The description of the App provided by the owner.

external_url¶: The URL provided for the App by the owner.

html_url¶: The HTML URL provided for the App by the owner.

id¶: The unique identifier for the App. This is useful in cases where you may want to authenticate either as an App or as a specific installation of an App.

name¶: The display name of the App that the user sees.

node_id¶: A base64-encoded blob returned by the GitHub API for who knows what reason.

owner¶: A ShortUser object representing the GitHub user who owns the App.

updated_at¶: A datetime object representing the day and time the App was last updated.

as_dict()¶

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:	this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary
Return type:	dict

as_json()¶

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:	this object’s attributes as a JSON string
Return type:	str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)¶: Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)¶: Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()¶

Generate a new session.

Returns:	A brand new session
Return type:	`GitHubSession`

ratelimit_remaining¶

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:	int

refresh(conditional=False)¶

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:	conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs
Returns:	self

class github3.apps.Installation(json, session)¶

An installation of a GitHub App either on a User or Org.

New in version 1.2.0.

This has the following attributes:

access_tokens_url¶

account¶

app_id¶

created_at¶

events¶

html_url¶

id¶

permissions¶

repositories_url¶

repository_selection¶

single_file_name¶

target_id¶

target_type¶

updated_at¶

as_dict()¶

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:	this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary
Return type:	dict

as_json()¶

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:	this object’s attributes as a JSON string
Return type:	str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)¶: Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)¶: Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()¶

Generate a new session.

Returns:	A brand new session
Return type:	`GitHubSession`

ratelimit_remaining¶

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:	int

refresh(conditional=False)¶

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:	conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs
Returns:	self