API to get the discussion that an issue was moved to

[tiangolo]

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Not sure if this is a question or a feature request.

I would like an API to get the discussion that an issue was moved to.

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There's a GraphQL API to access issues with most of their fields, and there's also an equivalent one for GitHub Discussions.

Now that GitHub Discussions can have templates, I'm finally moving the questions in https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi to use Discussions instead of Issues.

I use the API to check who's coming to help others and compute the FastAPI Experts (https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/fastapi-people/#experts).

The way that works is that I each question where someone made a comment.

But if I move an issue to a discussion (e.g. moving the old 2k closed issues with questions) I would end up with one issue AND one discussion with the same content, but I would have no way to know that one comes from the other, to count each one only once.

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[PASSIONFORYOU]

Hi,

GitHub provides a GraphQL API that allows you to access issues and discussions. You can query both issues and discussions to gather relevant information.

query {
  repository(owner: "owner", name: "repo") {
    issue(number: ISSUE_NUMBER) {
      id
      title
      body
    }
    discussion(number: DISCUSSION_NUMBER) {
      id
      title
      body
    }
  }
}

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[topgrade691028]

Currently, GitHub does not provide a direct API endpoint to retrieve discussions that an issue has been moved to. However, your use case highlights an important feature that could enhance the functionality of the GitHub API, especially for projects transitioning from Issues to Discussions.Introduce a feature allowing issues to retain a reference ID of the associated discussion when moved. This could be implemented as an additional field in the issue or discussion object, providing a clear link between the two.Extend the existing GraphQL API to include a way to fetch discussions linked to an issue. This should provide discussionId or a similar field in the issue's response when it’s moved to discussions.Implement webhooks that trigger when an issue is moved to discussions, sending payloads that include both the issue and discussion details.

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