Gith responding to github with status 200 but callback not called.

[joshjhargreaves]

I have beem attempting to implement git hooks with gith have had no luck. Even the very simple example below does not behave as I would expect. Status code 200 is being returned to github, so the gith server is obviously running, but the callback is not ever being called.

var gith = require('gith').create(9004); // ensure to match the port you entered in Github

gith().on( 'all', function( payload ) {
  console.log( 'Post-receive happened!' );
});

For the record I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 x64

[drGrove]

I am also noticing this issue.

[dneff]

I ran into this issue when using github enterprise. I'm also using Ubuntu 14.04.

I'm not sure if the webhooks are formatted differently for GH:E, but in digging through the lib/gith.js, it looks like these lines (starting at 247) are the problem:

    if ( /^payload=/.test( data ) ) {
        var payload = JSON.parse( querystring.unescape(data.slice(8)) );

There is no payload= in my webhook response, so I changed it to this:

    if ( data ) {
        var payload = JSON.parse( querystring.unescape(data) );

after that, it works great. Perhaps the solution is to test for payload= and trim it conditionally:

    if ( data ) {
        data = data.replace(/^payload=/,"");
        var payload = JSON.parse( querystring.unescape(data) );

[gauntface]

+1 on seeing the same behaviour.

Can also confirm the above comment fixes the issue.

[emanuil]

+1 for fixing this

[billautomata]

I'm still seeing this.

[robhrt7]

Same here. Seems like a project is dead...

[murphyj]

I'm also seeing this problem. Github is telling me it's fired correctly and i'm definitely listening to the push event but it's not logging out. I'm also using Ubuntu 14.04

[dcharbonnier]

Are use using the correct content type ?

[itsamenathan]

@dcharbonnier changing to that content type seems to work correctly. Though I would think this should work with the default settings on github.

[murphyj]

@dcharbonnier thanks for getting back to me. I couldn't get it working so I opted for a much simpler hand-crafted Sinatra app.

Out of interest what's the benefit of using gith over something like a lightweight Sinatry app aside from the fact that you don't have to ensure a separate process is running?

[nicbou]

If gith doesn't properly handle the format, it should return an appropriate status code, or at least provide some sort of feedback.

[maximilliangeorge]

I was also having trouble with this. Changing the content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded fixed this issue! Thanks @dcharbonnier