GitHub Issues: Scripts for working with Sub-Issues and Issue Types | josh-ops

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GitHub Issues: Scripts for working with Sub-Issues and Issue Types | josh-ops

A collection of scripts for working with sub-issues and issue types in GitHub Issues

https://josh-ops.com/posts/github-sub-issues-and-issue-types/

[iantanwx]

oddly, i couldn’t make the api work despite adding the correct headers. i wonder if i’ve done something wrong?

[joshjohanning]

oddly, i couldn’t make the api work despite adding the correct headers. i wonder if i’ve done something wrong?

@iantanwx How are you calling it or do you have an example? I'll test it from my side too to see if I can replicate!

[joshjohanning]

oddly, i couldn’t make the api work despite adding the correct headers. i wonder if i’ve done something wrong?

@iantanwx I would double check your query - I'm having success with something like this:

gh api graphql -H GraphQL-Features:issue_types -f owner="joshjohanning-org" -f repository="migrating-ado-to-gh-issues-v2" -F number="5" -f query='
query ($owner: String!, $repository: String!, $number: Int!) {
  repository(owner: $owner, name: $repository) {
    issue(number: $number) {
      title
      number
      url
      id
      issueType {
        name
      }
    }
  }
}'

Note the header: -H GraphQL-Features:issue_types

I would also double check your feature preview settings to make sure you have the New Issues Experience enabled.

[joshjohanning]

@iantanwx one final thing to note, if you're using the API (shipped on Dec 12, 2024), you need to use the sub-issue's ID field and not the NUMBER field.

You have to grab the ID first, so something like:

sub_issue_to_add_id=$(gh api /repos/MY-ORG-NAME/MY-REPO-NAME/issues/48 --jq .id) # the number of the issue is 48, but the id is 2885639662
gh api --method POST /repos/MY-ORG-NAME/MY-REPO-NAME/issues/46/sub_issues -F "sub_issue_id=$sub_issue_to_add_id"

[iantanwx]

@joshjohanning I finally made it work. It turns out that although we could see the issue type in the UI, I still had to explicitly flag us into the public beta 🤷