Our first task will be authentication with Github and being able to add that authentication into our program. First things first, let's get the token.
To be able to authenticate ourselves to Github we will need an OAuth Token. Navigate to the personal access token page and create a new token with scope of repo. Give it a useful description so you remember what it is for.
Once this has been created save this token to a newly created file at
~/.tokens/github.
Now we can get started. We will use the std::fs::File API to read this token
into a string and print it.
Rust has quite a well documented standard library which we will make use of to complete this section. Some of the modules we are going to need for this section are fs, env, and io. Have a read of these in regards to:
- opening and reading a file
- accessing the home directory
If you are using an IDE that is applying the compilation you may not need this
but you can check how you are going with the borrow checker by running cargo check in the directory containing the Cargo.toml file.