A Day of REST 2016

"Introduction to the WP REST API" - A brief history of the REST API plugin.

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1. Introduction to the REST API Ryan McCue
 Senior Engineer at Human Made
2. What is the API?
3. What is the API?
4. Why is the API? A history of the API
5. Existing WordPress APIs
6. XML-RPC Existing APIs & friends Most powerful:
7. JSON-RPC Existing APIs
8. Existing APIs
9. JSON-RPC Existing APIs
10. admin-ajax Existing APIs & friends Most developer friendly:
11. RSS Existing APIs & friends Most used:
12. RSS.js Existing APIs
13. Existing APIs
14. RSS.js Existing APIs
15. The World Wide Web
16. World Wide Web
21. World Wide Web
24. World Wide Web
27. WordPress.com API
29. .com API …REST?
31. .com API WordPress.com specifics
33. .com API Inspiration
34. .com API Unification
35. Birth of a Plugin
37. JSON
38. JSON Language Support
42. JSON Not XML
43. JSON JSONP
44. JSON
46. JSON
48. JSON
49. JSON /**/callback({…
50. REST
51. REST Browser Support
52. REST RPC
53. REST Challenges
54. Response Format
55. Responses Breaking from Core Names
56. Responses Posts ID => id post_content => content
 post_name => slug
57. Responses Comments comment_ID => id comment_content => content
 post_name => slug
58. Responses Terms term_id => id
 name => name slug => slug
59. Responses Users ID => id
 display_name => name user_nicename => slug
60. Responses Enveloping
62. Responses $ http demo.wp-api.org/wp-json/v2/wp?_envelope HTTP/1.1 200 OK { "body": { "name": "WP API Demo", "description": "Just another WordPress site”, "_links": { ... }, "headers": { "Allow": "GET" }, "status": 200 }
63. Responses HAL
65. Responses JSON Schema
66. Infrastructure
67. Infrastructure Request & Response
68. Infrastructure Separation of Concerns
69. Infrastructure REST Server vs Rewrites
70. Problems
71. Problems It’s New
72. Problems Meta
73. Problems Authentication
74. Bad / Good?
75. Help Us!
76. Thanks. speakerdeck.com/rmccue