/hackathon/githubTopRepositories/ fails

[edelans]

Athough /hackathon/githubResume/ and /hackathon/githubUser/ work properly on my resh install on a brand new virtualenv, /hackathon/githubTopRepositories/ fails.

Here is my stacktrace :

Environment:

Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/hackathon/githubTopRepositories/

Django Version: 1.7.6
Python Version: 2.7.12
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'hackathon',
 'bootstrapform',
 'django_nose',
 'rest_framework',
 'corsheaders')
Installed Middleware:
('django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware')

Traceback:
File "/home/edelans/.virtualenvs/django-starter/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  111.                     response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/home/edelans/github/django-hackathon-starter/hackathon_starter/hackathon/views.py" in githubTopRepositories
  532.         list = getTopContributedRepositories(user, repositories, settings.GITHUB_CLIENT_ID, settings.GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET)
File "/home/edelans/github/django-hackathon-starter/hackathon_starter/hackathon/scripts/github.py" in getTopContributedRepositories
  260.         jsonList.append(json.loads(req.content))
File "/home/edelans/.virtualenvs/django-starter/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/simplejson/__init__.py" in loads
  505.         return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/home/edelans/.virtualenvs/django-starter/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py" in decode
  370.         obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)
File "/home/edelans/.virtualenvs/django-starter/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py" in raw_decode
  400.         return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())

Exception Type: JSONDecodeError at /hackathon/githubTopRepositories/
Exception Value: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[edelans]

hum, might be because of an unreliable internet connection. gonna double check and come back here.

[DrkSephy]

It could also be due to running out of Github API requests, causing you to be rate limited. As such, the JSON decoding would fail since it isn't getting any JSON response from the API.

[edelans]

@DrkSephy yeah that's what happened, i got some errors telling me I exceeded the API rate-limit.

Thanks for pointing that out !

[DrkSephy]

No problem :). Closing this issue now.