Python GitHub “Status Check” POST Not Found Error! (404)

Question

This answer: "How to perform status checks in github repository?" ..

References the following articles:

https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/enabling-required-status-checks https://developer.github.com/v3/guides/building-a-ci-server/#working-with-statuses

So, to update a status check, I need to create one (and update it with a status at the same time); as per: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/#create-a-status ... Issue a POST to:

/repos/:owner/:repo/statuses/:sha

However, I am getting a 404 (response.status_code: 404), whenever I try to post a payload to the endpoint url. NOTE: I am building the url, using the information from the GitHub web-hook itself i.e.

content['repository']['owner']['login']
content['repository']['name']
content['pull_request']['head']['sha']

JSON Payload:

payload = { "state": "pending", "description": "The build succeeded!", "context": "continuous-integration/audit-compliance"}

Request:

headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                       'Authorization': "token "+gittokn}
url = https://github.com/api/v3/repos/<OWNER>/<REPO>/statuses/<PR-HEAD-SHA>
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, verify=False)

Response:

{'message': 'Not Found', 'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/enterprise/2.18/v3/repos/statuses/#create-a-status'}

With Curl:

curl -Is --user USER:PASS https://github.com/api/v3/repos/<OWNER>/<REPO>/statuses/<PR-HEAD-SHA> | head -1
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

curl -Is --user USER:PASS https://api.github.com/repos/<OWNER>/<REPO>/statuses/<PR-HEAD-SHA> | head -1
# no result

Where am I going wrong?

Can provide additional info on request; TIA.

Users with push access in a repository can create commit statuses for a given SHA. Do you have that access ? — Andriy Ivaneyko
@AndriyIvaneyko thanks.. I have updated the question to include the parameters. And yes, I have push access to the repository. — OneMoreNerd

Andriy Ivaneyko Andriy Ivaneyko · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-05T11:54:41

See that in the example the url has no v3 prefix, the template below shall work for you:

https://api.github.com/repos/ORGNAME/REPONAME/statuses/<SHA>

UPDATED ANSWER

https://github.com/api/v3/repos///statuses/ .. works fine.

The permission settings for GitHub token were the problem; Github really need to fix their exception handling; 404 it is not!

Python GitHub “Status Check” POST Not Found Error! (404)

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