rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-playground
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Description
Whenever i create a public gist using GitHub API, and try to open it on Rust playground using https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=211bb09a91daf972934a13d6aee9e178; The editor isn't able to fetch contents of that gist. I looked into the console tab on inspect section on my browser, i saw a error of this kind.

on further inspection , i found out, the application fetches gist contents by sending GET request to https://play.rust-lang.org/meta/gist/211bb09a91daf972934a13d6aee9e178 and for all the gist created using API it is returning 500 server error.
Here is the curl request
curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: token [my-token] " \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-d '{"public": true, "files": {"[filename]": {"filename": "my_public_file", "content": "pub fn main() { println!("test") }"}}}'
https://api.github.com/gists \
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the failing GET request at /meta/gist/211bb09a91daf972934a13d6aee9e178 with a public GitHub API gist that has no description. Trace the gist-loading entry point from that endpoint and compare it with a gist that has a description. Done means the Rust Playground editor loads the contents of both kinds of gist without a 500 error.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, rust
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100