Different ways of getting issue.getClosedby() return different results.

[anthonyms]

The following test case shows that calling issue.getRepository().getIssue(issue.getNumber()) .getClosedBy() at times yields different results from issue.getClosedBy().

Also not all closed issues return the GHuser who closed them whereas github shows the closer of the issue.

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.kohsuke.github.GHIssue;
import org.kohsuke.github.GHIssueState;
import org.kohsuke.github.GHRepository;
import org.kohsuke.github.GitHub;

public class IssueTester {

    private  static GHRepository repo;

    @BeforeClass
    public  static void setup() {
        try {
            repo = GitHub.connectAnonymously().getRepository(
                    "kohsuke/github-api");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    // These two ways of gettting closers must return same GHUser
    @Test
    public void testGetCloser() {
        try {
            for (GHIssue issue : repo.getIssues(GHIssueState.CLOSED)) {
                assertEquals(issue.getRepository().getIssue(issue.getNumber())
                        .getClosedBy(), issue.getClosedBy());
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    // Every closed issue must have been closed by someone
    @Test
    public void testClosedIssue() {
        try {
            for (GHIssue issue : repo.getIssues(GHIssueState.CLOSED)) {
                assert (issue.getClosedBy() != null);
                assert (issue.getRepository().getIssue(issue.getNumber())
                        .getClosedBy() != null);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

[anthonyms]

Related to #60.

It is indeed a gihub api issue.

[kohsuke]

I agree this looks like a duplicate of issue #60.