[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39965: REST API: not possible to request collection of posts across post types

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#39965: REST API: not possible to request collection of posts across post types
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 Reporter:  iseulde      |       Owner:  jnylen0
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  REST API     |     Version:  4.7
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  rest-api     |     Focuses:
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Comment (by joehoyle):

 >  Say I’m writing a post and I want to promote one of my products. I want
 to link to my product. Are you really saying in Gutenberg I have to do
 that manually? Do you realize this won't be very... welcomed by users?

 This is still possible in the REST API, just with multiple requests. It's
 up to the client on how it wants to present multiple types to the user.
 There's the api client (in this case gutenberg) that can do things for the
 user, like send multiple requests. Different post types can be very
 different, so the client should handle these as such. For example, don't
 assume you can just get "all posts across all types" and then display
 them. What if a post type doesn't support titles, etc. Different post
 types can be as different as a Tag and a Post, as far as the API is
 concerned. That's why the suggestion is a search endpoint (or similar)
 that would return multiple groupings of different objects.

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