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JSON REST API Current challenges and future impact

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Rachel Baker @rachelbaker Senior Web Engineer, Lead Developer, JSON REST API Project

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Democratize Publishing Mission:

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USA Today

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http://www.vogue.com/

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Five Thirty Eight

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USA Today

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Five Thirty Eight

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Five Thirty Eight

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http://open.nasa.gov/

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http://open.nasa.gov/

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http://open.nasa.gov/

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http://open.nasa.gov/

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Powers over 60 million sites Stats: Forbes, 2011

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23.3% of active sites Stats: W3 Techs, December 2014

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4.0 downloaded 29 million times Stats: WordPress.org, December 2014

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Multi-functional

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User-friendly

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Powered by a popular (and hated) language

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Backward compatible

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Why do we need an API?

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We made it to 11.

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Relevance for 11 more years.

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69.1% of the web doesn’t use a CMS.

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Build new, or iterate on existing features.

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Continue the mission.

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Challenges

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60 million distributed APIs.

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Drink.

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11 years late.

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Respect privacy expectations.

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Secure authentication.

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Different hosting environments.

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Different WordPress versions.

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Extensible with plugins.

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Cannot deploy a bug fix.

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Still has to be useful.

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Quality clients.

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Solutions

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Drink.

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Slow down we have a responsibility to not screw this up.

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Err on the side of authentication.

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Namespaced and versioned routes: wp/1.0/posts pluginname/2.0/events

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OAuth1.0a and possibly OAuth2 through WordPress.org.

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Educate our community and seek feedback from all communities.

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Official client libraries.

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Released version 1.0 and encourage everyone to start using it now.

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Many are already using it in production New York Times Wired 10up Bocoup …and more

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Future

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Backbone-based WordPress “themes”.

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Customized Dashboards.

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Customized Dashboards.

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Front-end (inline) content editing.

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Customized Dashboards.

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WordPress has been the gateway drug for tens of thousands of web developers.

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WordPress will be the gateway drug for tens of thousands of APIs.

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Check it out

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Read the Documentation wp-api.org

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Install the Plugin github.com/WP-API/WP-API

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Get the Schema http://example.com/wp-json/

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Build Stuff and Give Feedback Posts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom Post Types ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Post Meta ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Media ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Comments ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Taxonomies/Terms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ GET POST PUT DELETE

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Thank you github.com/WP-API

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STEP ONE READ THE DOCUMENTATION

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STEP TWO Install & Activate the Plugin

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STEP THREE GET the API ScHEMA http://example.com/wp-json/

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STEP THREE GET the API ScHEMA http://example.com/wp-json/

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STEP FOUR GET the POSTS COLLECTION http://example.com/wp-json/posts/

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http://example.com/wp-json/ STEP FOUR GET the POSTS COLLECTION

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STEPs FIVE - Twenty-Two EXPLORE ALL THE POSSIBILITES Posts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom Post Types ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Post Meta ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Media ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Comments ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Taxonomies/Terms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ GET POST PUT DELETE

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STEP Twenty-THREE - ?? Use the JSON REST API Use the JSON REST API plugin in/for a project. Give us feedback.