K. Adam White 5:41 pm on November 14, 2019
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REST API Chat Summary: November 7

This post summarizes the weekly REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. chat meeting for November 7, 2019. (Slack transcript, Agenda). Please note that this meeting did not change time for daylight savings, and Weekly REST API component office hours continue to be held every Thursday at 18:00 UTC in the #core-restapi room in the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. 🙂

Authentication

The first half of the meeting discussed the newly-created wp-api/authentication GitHub repository, a follow-up to discussions at WCUS contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. around rebooting work towards a canonical, coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Authentication solution to permit the Mobile team to use the REST API instead of XMLRPC.

Our target for a merge proposal some time next year is to have an use the OAuth 2 handshake flow with dynamic client registration, which issues revocable, long-lived JWT tokens. The repo has no content so far, but we will start work by focusing on UX and the desired user-facing and technical flow rather than diving immediately into code.

@spacedmonkey, @derekherman, and others intend to drive this project over the coming months. If you who is reading this or any colleagues of yours are interested in contributing to this effort, we will be using part of our weekly REST API office hours each Thursday at 18:00 UTC (Thursday at 18:00 UTC) as a weekly standup to coordinate work.

Priorities & Goals

Priorities for Next Release

Key tickets highlighted for consideration as part of the next release cycle include, but are not limited to,

  • Improve performance in route matching #48530
  • Support registered default 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. values #43941
  • Permit schema filtering #47779

If you have a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. to highlight or propose for the next bugfix or major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope., please leave it as a comment below or raise it in #core-restapi. Thank you once more, as well, to everybody who helped drive our API improvements in 5.3!

Documentation

We are behind schedule in updating the REST API handbook to cover the recent changes in WordPress 5.3. @timothyblynjacobs and @kadamwhite will be working to roll these updates out over the coming week. Handbook content is managed at github.com/wp-api/docs.

Open Floor

@timothyblynjacobs raised #44568 and #44886. Because WordPress operations are non-atomic, these race condition issues are not limited to the REST API and were determined to be out-of-scope, so #44886 was closed as wontfixwontfix A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development) that indicates the ticket will not be addressed further. This may be used for acceptable edge cases (for bugs), or enhancements that have been rejected for core inclusion..

Several bugs were raised and have been provisionally milestoned for 5.4, with the option to backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. as needed once addressed.

To increase contributor awareness of REST API tickets, we discussed holding periodic component scrub meetings in the main #core channel.

Agenda for November 14

The next REST API meeting is happening shortly in #core-restapi at Thursday, November 14, 18:00 UTC. Agenda:

  • REST API Authentication project weekly meeting
  • Review open tickets which should be provisionally milestoned for 5.4
  • Open floor

#meeting-notes, #rest-api