I couldn't find any examples of gists queries using GraphQL--most GraphQL examples seem to focus on traditional repositories--so here is one. As a preface, I cannot recommend strongly enough, at least when getting started, developing queries using the GitHub GraphQL Explorer. I initially started by issuing queries via curl
, constructing them using the docs available on the site and a downloaded copy of the schema. Unfortunately, I ended up with errors that I couldn't quite parse. I knew, for example, from the schema, the possible field values for ordering gists. However, whenever I tried to use one of those values, the API returned that it was invalid, like so:
{"data":null,"errors":[{"message":"Argument 'orderBy' on Field 'gists' has an invalid value. Expected type 'GistOrder'.","locations":[{"line":1,"column":48}]}]}"
When I finally turned to the Explorer, I discovered that not only was the value I was using correct (field: CREATED_AT
), thanks to its auto