Create tag with release notes crashes server

[juliocbcotta]

When creating a new tag with a release note, I get

Caused by: org.gitlab4j.api.GitLabApiException: 500 Internal Server Error
	at org.gitlab4j.api.AbstractApi.validate(AbstractApi.java:633)
	at org.gitlab4j.api.AbstractApi.post(AbstractApi.java:286)
	at org.gitlab4j.api.TagsApi.createTag(TagsApi.java:239)

I looked at the implementation and the documentation for tag creation

the parameter release_description is not shown in the documentation and whenever I give it a non empty value I get that exception.

Would you have a workaround for this?

[chrisrohr]

One work around is to use the release api instead of the tag api. Specifically the Gitlab docs have the following information about tagging which would remove the need for 2 calls:

If a tag specified in tag_name doesn’t exist, the release is created from ref and tagged with tag_name. It can be a commit SHA, another tag name, or a branch name.

Url for this api on Gitlab's docs is https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/releases/#create-a-release and looks like it has been included in this library since at least 4.14.9

[juliocbcotta]

Yeah, I am using the release method, but it took me a while to figure it out. So removing or at least deprecating that tag method seems like a good action from the library part.