WP REST API: Version 2.0 Beta 12

Happy Tuesday  The WP REST API team is proud to bring you: 2.0 Beta 12 “Canyonero”. Download it from the plugin repository or from GitHub.

Here are some highlightsbreaking changes from the changelog:

• Removes meta endpoints from primary plugin. If your project depends on post meta endpoints, please install WP REST API Meta Endpoints. For the gory history of meta, read #1425 and linked issues. At this time, we recommend using register_rest_field() to expose meta (docs).
• Returns original resource when deleting PTCU. Now that all resources require the force param, we don’t need to wrap delete responses with the trash state.
• Uses roles rather than role in the Users controller. Building the REST API gives us the opportunity to standardize on roles, instead of having both roles and role.
• Moves to consistent use of context throughout controllers. Contexts limit the data present in the response. Here’s how to think of them: embed correlates with sidebar representation, view represents the primary public view, and edit is the data expected for an editor.
• Removes post_* query param support for GET /wp/v2/comments. The proper pattern is to use GET /wp/v2/posts to fetch the post IDs to limit the request to.
• Introduces rest_validate_request_arg()/rest_sanitize_request_arg(). Dedicated functions means we can use them for validating / sanitizing query args too. Removes WP_REST_Controller::validate_schema_property() and WP_REST_Controller::sanitize_schema_property().

As always, we have a detailed changelog as well as the full set of changes if you’re interested.

What’s the future of the WP REST API? I’d like to leave you with this final thought:

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
I egged the chicken, and then I ate his leg

WP REST API: Version 2.0 Beta 12 by Daniel Bachhuber was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/02/09/wp-rest-api-version-2-0-beta-12/