API for getting PullRequest/Issue timeline data.

[chriseaton]

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Description

Proposed API route: GET ​/repos​/{owner}​/{repo}​/issues​/{index}/timeline

Currently, there is no way to get a timeline of issue events (differing comment types in the database) via the API. I am proposing a new API route on repo issues that gets the same data as-is displayed on the GUI below the issue description (see screenshot), similar to the content rendered by the comments template (comments.tmpl).

The returned result could be an array of objects with the essential information from the timeline object.
For example:

[
    {
        "id": "2",
        "type": "7",
        "original_author": "NULL",
        "original_author_id": "0",
        "issue_id": "2",
        "label_id": "20",
        "old_milestone_id": "0",
        "milestone_id": "0",
        "assignee_id": "0",
        "removed_assignee": "False",
        "old_title": "NULL",
        "new_title": "NULL",
        "old_ref": "NULL",
        "new_ref": "NULL",
        "dependent_issue_id": "0",
        "date_created": "",
        "date_updated": ""
    },
  // ...
]

Screenshots

[zeripath]

Seems reasonable to me but is there a github API we could implement instead?

[chriseaton]

This might be related from GitHub/API