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comfort-fade Preview
Multi-line comments in a pull request diff is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, these response fields may change without advance notice. See the blog post for more information.
To create multi-line comments or see multi-line comments with the new supported fields during the preview period, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept
header:
application/vnd.github.comfort-fade-preview+json
To show multi-line comment-supported fields in the response, use the comfort-fade
preview header and the line
parameter.
If you use the comfort-fade
preview header, your response will show:
- For multi-line comments, values for
start_line
,original_start_line
,start_side
,line
,original_line
, andside
. - For single-line comments, values for
line
,original_line
, andside
and anull
value forstart_line
,original_start_line
, andstart_side
.
If you don't use the comfort-fade
preview header, multi-line and single-line comments will appear the same way in the response with a single position
attribute. Your response will show:
- For multi-line comments, the last line of the comment range for the
position
attribute. - For single-line comments, the diff-positioned way of referencing comments for the
position
attribute.
squirrel-girl Preview
An additional reactions
object in the issue comment payload is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details.
To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept
header:
application/vnd.github.squirrel-girl-preview
The reactions
key will have the following payload where url
can be used to construct the API location for listing and creating reactions.
Parameters
Example Response
Status: 200
{
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1",
"pull_request_review_id": 42,
"id": 10,
"node_id": "MDI0OlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0UmV2aWV3Q29tbWVudDEw",
"diff_hunk": "@@ -16,33 +16,40 @@ public class Connection : IConnection...",
"path": "file1.txt",
"position": 1,
"original_position": 4,
"commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
"original_commit_id": "9c48853fa3dc5c1c3d6f1f1cd1f2743e72652840",
"in_reply_to_id": 8,
"user": {
"login": "octocat",
"id": 1,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
"avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
},
"body": "Great stuff!",
"created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
"updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
"html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1#discussion-diff-1",
"pull_request_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1",
"author_association": "NONE",
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1"
},
"html": {
"href": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1#discussion-diff-1"
},
"pull_request": {
"href": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1"
}
},
"start_line": 1,
"original_start_line": 1,
"start_side": "RIGHT",
"line": 2,
"original_line": 2,
"side": "RIGHT"
}
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