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Tom J Nowell
July 23, 2017
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REST APIs for Absolute Beginners
How to make a basic endpoint, use it on the frontend, and convert existing code
Tom J Nowell
July 23, 2017
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Transcript
REST APIs for Absolute Beginners How to make a basic
endpoint, use it on the frontend, and convert existing code
What are my options?
Admin AJAX? add_action("wp_ajax_fruit", "fruit"); add_action("wp_ajax_nopriv_fruit", "fruit"); function fruit() { echo
"bananas"; exit; } jQuery.ajax({ type : "get", url : "https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", data : { action: "fruit" }, success: function(response) { // } });
A file in your theme/plugin you call?
REST API Endpoints
Where is the API? /wp-json
The rest API is a is a set of pages
that return JSON instead of HTML that have no state
REST actions GET - viewing POST - adding/updating DELETE -
deleting
Adding an Endpoint add_action( 'rest_api_init', function () { register_rest_route( 'tomjn/v1',
'/test/', array( 'methods' => 'GET', 'callback' => 'tomjn_rest_test' ) ); } ); function tomjn_rest_test() { return "moomins"; }
/wp-json/tomjn/v1/test
None
Viewing an endpoint jQuery.get( "https://tomjn.com/wp-json/tom/v1/test", function ( data ) {
console.log( data ); } );
How Do I Accept Parameters? function tomjn_rest_test( \WP_REST_Request $request )
{ return "moomins ".$request["val"]; } /wp-json/tomjn/v1/test?val=1 "moomins 1"
Converting AJAX calls • Register an endpoint • Use the
function WP Admin AJAX uses • Return what you want instead of printing it • Use the request parameter instead of $_GET $_POST etc • Update the URLs in your javascript
A Useful Helper wp_enqueue_script( 'wp-api' );
Creating Content $.ajax( { url: wpApiSettings.root + 'wp/v2/posts', method: 'POST',
beforeSend: function ( xhr ) { xhr.setRequestHeader( 'X-WP-Nonce', wpApiSettings.nonce ); }, data:{ 'title' : 'Hello Moon', 'content': 'Test post' } } ).done( function ( response ) { console.log( response ); } );
Updating Content $.ajax( { url: wpApiSettings.root + 'wp/v2/posts/1', method: 'POST',
beforeSend: function ( xhr ) { xhr.setRequestHeader( 'X-WP-Nonce', wpApiSettings.nonce ); }, data:{ 'title' : 'Updated Moon', 'content': 'even better post' } } ).done( function ( response ) { console.log( response ); } );
Deleting Content $.ajax( { url: wpApiSettings.root + 'wp/v2/posts/1', method: 'DELETE',
beforeSend: function ( xhr ) { xhr.setRequestHeader( 'X-WP-Nonce', wpApiSettings.nonce ); } } ).done( function ( response ) { console.log( response ); } );
Built in Endpoints Posts /wp/v2/posts Post Revisions /wp/v2/revisions Categories /wp/v2/categories
Tags /wp/v2/tags Pages /wp/v2/pages Comments /wp/v2/comments Taxonomies /wp/v2/taxonomies Media /wp/v2/media Users /wp/v2/users Post Types /wp/v2/types Post Statuses /wp/v2/statuses Settings /wp/v2/settings
Useful Things
Adding REST support to CPT 'show_in_rest' => true,
WP.org REST API Handbook https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api
Rest API Console
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