Issue API and Attachments

[madman2021]

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Description

The Issues API doesn't expose attachments, is this by design?
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[techknowlogick]

@madman2021 could be that no one has coded the functionality yet. For example attachments were just exposed for the releases API endpoint in #3478

[lunny]

I think this has been resolved by #3478. @madman2021 please confirm that.

[jonasfranz]

@lunny It got only partialy resolved because issues do not provide an assets api.

[madman2021]

As @JonasFranzDEV mentioned, I was hoping I could insert/get attachments to issues via API calls.

Background

On one of our production sites I have a BugReport button in the corner, this allows the user to enter some text and also press a button to capture a JPEG image of the current webpage, the text would be put into the Issue body and the Image added as an attachment. Currently i'm hosting the image in the production site and the link inserted in the body, idealy it would just be added as an attachment.

Hope that helps understand what I'm talking about.

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[mbedded]

I would love to see this issue, too. I am creating issues by an REST-API and the attachments are currently added as links to other sources. Attachments can be set for releases. Is it much work to "just make them public" or do some code have to be written?

I am no go-developer but maybe i would like to take a look if i can implement this feature (had to read the contributions guide, too).

EDIT 2019-09-22:
I invested some days to look into that code. Unfortunately i didn't worked with Go yet and i have many issues to set up my environment. I guess there could be some "go specific" things i have to know. It would be nice if some more "Go aware" people could implement this feature :)

[bobemoe]

I'm looking for this too. Our automated testing scripts post the test results as comments to issue using the Gitea API, and there are some screenshots that I want to attach to the comment.

[bobemoe]

Well, I found a silly workaround!! Not sure I'd recommend it though:

I upload the file to a release, using API: /repos/USER/REPO/releases/1/assets

In the response there is a browser_download_url field that contains a link to the image that you can use to embed it into your comment.

PROBLEMS with this: release 1 is not actually associated with the REPO and I don't really know where the files are going! I can't see them on the actual release on the actual repo its associated with, maybe this is a permission issue. I think if the release was associated with the correct repo they may show up. We don't really want them to show up on a release so thats fine, but really messy.

[guillep2k]

Well, I found a silly workaround!! Not sure I'd recommend it though:

I upload the file to a release, using API: /repos/USER/REPO/releases/1/assets

In the response there is a browser_download_url field that contains a link to the image that you can use to embed it into your comment.

PROBLEMS with this: release 1 is not actually associated with the REPO and I don't really know where the files are going! I can't see them on the actual release on the actual repo its associated with, maybe this is a permission issue. I think if the release was associated with the correct repo they may show up. We don't really want them to show up on a release so thats fine, but really messy.

The fact that you can do this is a bug. You should not rely much on it working after a future upgrade.

EDIT: I see that you've already reported it in #8282