From 232c1eca568498016834d8bfa5e5721b6968aa68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Stillhammer <kevin.stillhammer@pm.me>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:13:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error messages on GitHub API errors (#199)

Fixes: #198
---
 dist/ruff-action/index.js        | 5 +++++
 src/download/download-version.ts | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dist/ruff-action/index.js b/dist/ruff-action/index.js
index a648b79..dc177f2 100644
--- a/dist/ruff-action/index.js
+++ b/dist/ruff-action/index.js
@@ -31657,6 +31657,10 @@ async function getReleaseTagNames(octokit) {
         owner: constants_1.OWNER,
         repo: constants_1.REPO,
     });
+    const releaseTagNames = response.map((release) => release.tag_name);
+    if (releaseTagNames.length === 0) {
+        throw Error("Github API request failed while getting releases. Check the GitHub status page for outages. Try again later.");
+    }
     return response.map((release) => release.tag_name);
 }
 async function getLatestVersion(githubToken) {
@@ -31674,6 +31678,7 @@ async function getLatestVersion(githubToken) {
             latestRelease = await getLatestRelease(octokit);
         }
         else {
+            core.error("Github API request failed while getting latest release. Check the GitHub status page for outages. Try again later.");
             throw err;
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/download/download-version.ts b/src/download/download-version.ts
index a2440f0..64f7bbe 100644
--- a/src/download/download-version.ts
+++ b/src/download/download-version.ts
@@ -158,6 +158,12 @@ async function getReleaseTagNames(
     owner: OWNER,
     repo: REPO,
   });
+  const releaseTagNames = response.map((release) => release.tag_name);
+  if (releaseTagNames.length === 0) {
+    throw Error(
+      "Github API request failed while getting releases. Check the GitHub status page for outages. Try again later.",
+    );
+  }
   return response.map((release) => release.tag_name);
 }
 
@@ -177,6 +183,9 @@ async function getLatestVersion(githubToken: string) {
       const octokit = new PaginatingOctokit();
       latestRelease = await getLatestRelease(octokit);
     } else {
+      core.error(
+        "Github API request failed while getting latest release. Check the GitHub status page for outages. Try again later.",
+      );
       throw err;
     }
   }