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Events API broken - no data returned, broken/incomplete data, or 404 error for some users

Broken/incomplete data

Only two events for my user, dated 2018-04-xx. Note target_* or commit_from fields. They make no sense.

nowaker@nwkr-desktop ~/projekty/dreamhost % curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN $GITLAB_API_PRIVATE_TOKEN" https://git.dreamhost.com/api/v4/users/nowaker/events 2>/dev/null | jq
[
  {
    "project_id": 132,
    "action_name": "pushed new",
    "target_id": null,
    "target_iid": null,
    "target_type": null,
    "author_id": 23,
    "target_title": null,
    "created_at": "2018-04-25T22:55:19.961Z",
    "author": {
      "id": 23,
      "name": "Damian Nowak",
      "username": "nowaker",
      "state": "active",
      "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4abe4ab371660c6e0560e36d2ebbc37e?s=80&d=identicon",
      "web_url": "https://git.dreamhost.com/nowaker"
    },
    "push_data": {
      "commit_count": 1,
      "action": "created",
      "ref_type": "branch",
      "commit_from": null,
      "commit_to": "1e60f82c1c6d8fac153578d4b09d97a924349f9b",
      "ref": "master",
      "commit_title": "REDACTED"
    },
    "author_username": "nowaker"
  },
  {
    "project_id": 132,
    "action_name": "created",
    "target_id": null,
    "target_iid": null,
    "target_type": null,
    "author_id": 23,
    "target_title": null,
    "created_at": "2018-04-25T22:54:58.216Z",
    "author": {
      "id": 23,
      "name": "Damian Nowak",
      "username": "nowaker",
      "state": "active",
      "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4abe4ab371660c6e0560e36d2ebbc37e?s=80&d=identicon",
      "web_url": "https://git.dreamhost.com/nowaker"
    },
    "author_username": "nowaker"
  }
]

No data

nowaker@nwkr-desktop ~/projekty/dreamhost % curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN $GITLAB_API_PRIVATE_TOKEN" https://git.dreamhost.com/api/v4/users/jordan/events 2>/dev/null | jq
[]

404

nowaker@nwkr-desktop ~/projekty/dreamhost % curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN $GITLAB_API_PRIVATE_TOKEN" https://git.dreamhost.com/api/v4/users/dan.kuciel/events 2>/dev/null | jq
{
  "error": "404 Not Found"
}

GitLab

Results of GitLab environment info

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System information
System:         Ubuntu 14.04
Proxy:          no
Current User:   git
Using RVM:      no
Ruby Version:   2.4.4p296
Gem Version:    2.7.6
Bundler Version:1.16.2
Rake Version:   12.3.1
Redis Version:  3.2.11
Git Version:    2.18.1
Sidekiq Version:5.1.3
Go Version:     unknown

GitLab information
Version:        11.3.4-ee
Revision:       14d3a1d
Directory:      /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails
DB Adapter:     postgresql
DB Version:     9.6.8
URL:            https://git.dreamhost.com
HTTP Clone URL: https://git.dreamhost.com/some-group/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:  git@git.dreamhost.com:some-group/some-project.git
Elasticsearch:  yes
Geo:            no
Using LDAP:     no
Using Omniauth: yes
Omniauth Providers: google_oauth2


GitLab Shell
Version:        8.3.3
Repository storage paths:
  • default: /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories Hooks: /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell/hooks Git: /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git

Results of GitLab application Check

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Nothing relevant except:

Git user has default SSH configuration? ... no


which has nothing to do with Events API.

Possible fixes

(If you can, link to the line of code that might be responsible for the problem)

~bug

@markglenfletcher @jramsay