Github api get issues filtered by labels using octokit.net

Question

At the moment my call to the GitHub API returns all issues for my repo.

var repoIssueRequest = new RepositoryIssueRequest
{
    State = itemState,// Is ItemState.Open or ItemState.Closed
    Labels = new[] { label1, label2}// Trying to specify the labels I want to filter by, but there is no set, so this won't work
};

var gitRepoIssues = (_gitHubclient.Issue.GetForRepository(string owner, string repo name, repoIssueRequest)).Result.ToList();

I want to not just specify whether to get open or closed issues, but by labels too. The spec (View Here) specifies labels as one of the parameters, but in octokit.net I can't specify a list of labels, as it only has the getter accessor.

RepositoryIssueRequest implements IssueRequest, and the IssueRequest contains public Collection<string> Labels { get; }.

At the moment I filter by labels after getting all the issues, but a lot of data must be getting returned if a couple hundred issues are being returned and then filtering this collection of issues. How can I specify the labels, so that the time it takes to return the collection of issues is reduced?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '15 at 12:16

I opened an issue on the Octokit.net repo, and got an answer to my problem.

var repoIssueRequest = new RepositoryIssueRequest
{
    State = itemState,// Is ItemState.Open or ItemState.Closed
    //Labels = new[] { label1, label2}// Don't specify label names here
};

repoIssueRequest.Labels.Add("Label1");// Repeat for label 2 and so on or use .AddRange()

var gitRepoIssues = (_gitHubclient.Issue.GetForRepository(string owner, string repo name, repoIssueRequest)).Result.ToList();

My thanks to shiftkey for a quick response to my issue

Github api get issues filtered by labels using octokit.net

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