Go Github Bypass Unexported about go-github

[gmlewis]

This was implemented in #1907.

Can you give an example of how you would use it if it were exported?

Alternatively, feel free to write up a PR showing your use case as a new unit test and we can take a look at it.

[nkreiger]

@gmlewis thanks for the qr, let me validate because it may have been the github changes 3 days ago switching the message

[gmlewis]

OK, cool.

Also, I should have mentioned that the original problem that was trying to be solved was #1899 which would be great if you could take a look at when you have a moment.

[nkreiger]

@gmlewis took a look -- I do think the problem remains with it not being exported.

Based on review of the code, the github client will not make the extra call if the primary rate limit has been exceeded. Therefore, any RoundTrip rate limiting logic defined in the go-github rate limiter, or any other custom client, will NOT be reached.

It would be awesome to expose this, I'm happy too.

LMK what you think

go-github/github/github.go

Line 631 in 75644ea

// checkRateLimitBeforeDo does not make any network calls, but uses existing knowledge from

I do not have the scope to confirm this locally FYI

[gmlewis]

So the gist you pointed me to appears to be extremely old and doesn't even contain checkSecondaryRateLimitBeforeDo.
There also appears to be no difference to checkRateLimitBeforeDo, so I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

If you want to make a PR based on the current top-of-trunk, that would be fine, and it should be much easier to compare.