ansible-galaxy github-token calling non-existant API endpoint

Bryan Hunt

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Dec 17, 2015, 1:04:03 PM12/17/15

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Hi there, it seems an API endpoint may have vanished.

From - http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/galaxy.html

Authenticate with Galaxy

"If you do not wish to use your GitHub password, or if you have two-factor authentication enabled with GitHub, use the –github-token 
option to pass a personal access token that you create. Log into GitHub, go to Settings and click on Personal Access Token to create a token"

The command line was throwing an exception about inability to JSON decode the response - so I inserted a breakpoint into lib/ansible/galaxy/api.py

From there, I discovered the URL and POST parameters being used. I then tried calling from the command line using CURL.

(I've stripped private info from the token)

[~%]curl -XPOST "https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/tokens" --data "github_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXa934c175XXXXXXXXDXXXXXXXXe9d" | head
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  5934    0  5881  100    53   6447     58 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  6448


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en-us">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="author" content="Ansible, Inc" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/static/img/favicon.ico" />

It seems like the API endpoint is down or not mapped correctly or.. suggestions please?

I'm using Ansible from git, tried with versions devel and stable-2.0.

Any ideas? 

Bryan

Chris Houseknecht

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Dec 17, 2015, 3:11:55 PM12/17/15

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The doc site is not up to speed with the latest in the stable-2.0 branch. If it were, you would see a note explaining the following:

Note
The login command in Ansible 2.0 requires using the Galaxy 2.0 Beta site. Use the --server option to access https://galaxy-qa.ansible.com. You can also add a server definition in the [galaxy] section of your ansible.cfg file.

So as the above note explains, the login command only works with the beta site. This is true for import, delete and setup commands as well.

Apologies for the confusion. I'll see what we can do to update the doc site.

--Chris

bryan hunt

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Dec 17, 2015, 3:28:02 PM12/17/15

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Thanks for the quick response Chris !

B

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