register_meta() discussion on Thursday, July 14

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There will be a meeting in #core at Thursday July 14, 19:00 UTC to discuss the changes in register_meta() for the 4.6 release. The dev notes have been published, but there is still work to be done to ensure things are great.

Of particular interest is a proposal to change to a CURIE like notation when working with the registration of metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.. Instead of using two arguments (object type and subtype), there would be one argument containing both.

As an example, If a post type was registered with books as the slug and ISBN was stored as sanitized meta:

// In WordPress 4.5
register_meta( 'post', 'isbn', 'my_sanitize_callback' );

// In current trunk for 4.6
register_meta( 'post', 'isbn', array( 'object_subtype' => 'books', 'sanitize_callback' => 'my_sanitize_callback' ) );

// After proposed change
register_meta( 'post:books', 'isbn', array( 'sanitize_callback' => 'my_sanitize_callback' ) );

Please stop in #core at Thursday July 14, 19:00 UTC tomorrow if you are interested. If you can’t make it, please leave a comment on this post with your thoughts.

#4-6, #fields-api, #options-meta

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