Support Reactions of Comments #266

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1. TylerLeonhardt

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   on Jul 16, 2020
2. Howard Wolosky (HowardWolosky)

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   api-reactionsWork to complete the API's defined here: https://developer.github.com/v3/reactionsWork to complete the API's defined here: https://developer.github.com/v3/reactions

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3. HowardWolosky commented on Jul 16, 2020

   

   Howard Wolosky (HowardWolosky)

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   Some initial thoughts:

   #242 renamed Get-GitHubComment -> Get-GetHubIssueComment because it's really just focused on Issue comments. It was aliased back to Get-GitHubComment to avoid a breaking change, but it's really an Issue-focused function.

   I think it's going to be difficult to create a single function that can handle all of the different comment types. For instance, getting a specific pull request comment does not require having the pull request number available. Neither do you need the issue number to get a specific issue comment . We could in theory author the function to require the PullRequestNumber/IssueNumber, which would make the signature much more straight-forward, but trying to enable the minimum required parameters of the API means that we can't cover both types in the same function. It's a similar situation with reactions to those other comment types. We don't technically need that information to successfully use those API's, so it seems a bit artificial to require them of the user.

   I also don't think that adding an additional string parameter to capture the type of comment is a good alternative either. E.g.

   [ValidateSet('IssueComment', 'PullRequestComment', 'PullRequestReviewComment']
   [string] $CommentType

   Feel free to prove me wrong though or provide a compelling argument.

   Right now, you can see that in #172 I added Get-GitHubGistComment (which is yet another comment type, but one that doesn't support reactions), and in my ongoing pullRequests work it adds Get-GitHubPullRequestReviewComment.

   Maybe we do move forward with your current designed plan and have Get-GitHubComment/Get-GitHubReaction support all comment types, but additionally require the unnecessary parameters in order to qualify what the CommentId is referencing, but then also add type-specific functions (e.g. Get-GitHubIssueComment, Get-GitHubPullRequestComment, Get-GitHubPullRequestReviewComment, etc...) that don't require that additional data given the context is already there in the name.

   Thoughts?
4. TylerLeonhardt commented on Jul 17, 2020

   

   TylerLeonhardt

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   Do you think there's a scenario when you want only Pull Request review comments and not Pull Request normal comments?

   I'm thinking about:

   Get-GitHubComment -PullRequest 1234
   

   What would a user expect that to do?

   Personally - I'm thinking it'd grab both review and normal comments.
5. TylerLeonhardt commented on Jul 17, 2020

   

   TylerLeonhardt

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   but then again....... commit comments show up in pull requests on the website... so then a user might expect those to come back as well

   but I don't agree with that.
6. HowardWolosky commented on Jul 17, 2020

   

   Howard Wolosky (HowardWolosky)

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   Do you think there's a scenario when you want only Pull Request review comments and not Pull Request normal comments?

   I can imagine scenarios where you'd just want PR comments and not review comments. I could see that resolved possibly with a couple parameter sets (these are just the pull request-related ones):

   1. List all comments

   • [int64] PullRequest
   • [switch] $IncludeReviewComments

   2. Get a specific comment

   • [int64] PullRequest
   • [int64] Comment

   Keep in mind that this is just for Get-GitHubComment. They would look different in the type-specific functions.
   Also keep in mind that proceeding this way means that Get-GitHubIssueComment should no longer be aliased to Get-GitHubComment and instead a separate Get-GitHubComment should be created that starts to support these additional comment types.
7. TylerLeonhardt commented on Jul 17, 2020

   

   TylerLeonhardt

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   I can imagine scenarios where you'd just want PR comments and not review comments

   Could follow Get-GitHubPullRequest's State parameter which has validate set of:

   All     Closed  Open
   

   could do:

   All     ReviewComments  GeneralComments
   

   or something like that