TypeScript

The TypeScript SDK for the GitHub REST API, generated from the same spec as the other nine.

Get the source

bash
gh repo clone octri-dev/github-typescript-showcase-sdk

The repository's README lists the toolchain and build commands for TypeScript. Open it on GitHub.

Quickstart

ts
import { GitHubV3REST } from "github";

async function main() {
  const client = new GitHubV3REST({
    baseUrl: "https://api.github.com",
  });
  const result = await client.search.labels({ repositoryId: 1, q: "q" });
  console.log(result);
}

main().catch(console.error);

Authentication

This build does not declare an authentication scheme. If the service requires a custom credential, set it through ClientAuth.headers; those headers are merged into every request.

Client behavior

  • Base URL: https://api.github.com.
  • Transport: Fetch API.
  • Timeout: 600,000 ms per attempt.
  • Retries: up to 3 attempts for status codes 408, 409, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504, with 500-8,000 ms backoff.
  • Idempotency: enabled for POST, PATCH using Idempotency-Key.
  • Error telemetry: off. This build has no reporting endpoint and sends no error reports.

High-level operation methods return the typed response body directly. The low-level request layer returns an SdkResponse<T> envelope containing data, status, headers, request ID, latency, and attempt count.

Errors

All failure paths use a small, predictable hierarchy:

ErrorMeaning
SdkValidationErrorA request argument failed an OpenAPI constraint before network I/O.
SdkHttpErrorThe server returned a non-2xx response.
SdkNetworkErrorDNS, connection, TLS, or socket failure.
SdkTimeoutErrorThe configured per-attempt timeout elapsed.

HTTP errors expose statusCode, the response body and headers, plus requestId when the server supplies one. Preserve the request ID in support logs; it is the fastest way to correlate a failed SDK call with server-side traces.

Common statuses are reported as a subclass of SdkHttpError, so a handler can catch only the one it handles: SdkBadRequestError (400), SdkUnauthorizedError (401), SdkPermissionDeniedError (403), SdkNotFoundError (404), SdkConflictError (409), SdkUnprocessableEntityError (422), SdkRateLimitError (429), SdkInternalServerError (any 5xx). Any other status is reported as SdkHttpError itself.

When the API declares a model for an error response, the SDK decodes the body into it as error.data, typed as the SdkErrorBody union of those models. It is empty when the status declares no model or the body does not fit one. The raw body stays on the error either way, and deserializeModel<ErrorModel>(error.body, "ErrorModel") decodes it into any ErrorModel by hand.

An operation that declares error models also exports <Operation>Error, the union of those models, for typing a decoded body.