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Introduction to the REST API Ryan McCue Senior Engineer at Human Made
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What is the API?
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What is the API?
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Why is the API? A history of the API
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Existing WordPress APIs
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XML-RPC Existing APIs & friends Most powerful:
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JSON-RPC Existing APIs
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Existing APIs
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JSON-RPC Existing APIs
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admin-ajax Existing APIs & friends Most developer friendly:
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RSS Existing APIs & friends Most used:
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RSS.js Existing APIs
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Existing APIs
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RSS.js Existing APIs
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The World Wide Web
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WordPress.com API
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.com API …REST?
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.com API WordPress.com specifics
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.com API Inspiration
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.com API Unification
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Birth of a Plugin
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JSON
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JSON Language Support
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JSON Not XML
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JSON JSONP
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JSON
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JSON /**/callback({…
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REST
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REST Browser Support
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REST RPC
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REST Challenges
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Response Format
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Responses Breaking from Core Names
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Responses Posts ID => id post_content => content post_name => slug
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Responses Comments comment_ID => id comment_content => content post_name => slug
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Responses Terms term_id => id name => name slug => slug
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Responses Users ID => id display_name => name user_nicename => slug
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Responses Enveloping
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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 }
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Responses HAL
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Responses JSON Schema
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Infrastructure
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Infrastructure Request & Response
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Infrastructure Separation of Concerns
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Infrastructure REST Server vs Rewrites
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Problems
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Problems It’s New
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Problems Meta
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Problems Authentication
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Bad / Good?
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Help Us!
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Thanks. speakerdeck.com/rmccue