[wp-hackers] GSoC Proposal: JSON REST API

[Alex Andrews]

+1 for this.

Having investigated the JSON plugins out there I have never found a decent
one that integrates well. I'd love to use WordPress to easily with JS
frameworks (including Backbone.js which comes with WordPress now) but
haven't had the energy or the time to implement a full and stable version
to do basic stuff and full custom post type things.

Is this Gist usable?

All the best,

Alex


On 10 April 2013 10:35, Ryan McCue <lists at rotorised.com> wrote:

> Filippo Pisano wrote:
>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> as far as I know ther plugin JSON API (
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/**plugins/json-api/<http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/>)
>> do most of the work you
>> mentioned. I used it once and it seemed very robust to me.
>> Maybe this could be a good start to implement the API natively into WP.
>>
>>  Hey Filippo,
>
> I've actually investigated the previous solutions somewhat, and they have
> several problems:
>
> 1. They aren't designed for core integration, and are intended to
>    always live as plugins. This is a problem for something that should
>    be in core.
> 2. They aren't very robust for custom post types. Most of the existing
>    ones are tailored to posts and pages, not the generic system of CPTs
>    and taxonomies that WP has
> 3. They aren't very REST-ful. A lot of the existing ones are basically
>    JSON-RPC, which I've argued against before, since it's mixing things
>    unnecessarily (IMO)
> 4. They aren't very WordPress-y. WordPress has a bunch of (often
>    strange) ways of doing things which most core developers are
>    familiar with, and these plugins usually eschew those.
>
> With the plugin you linked, it's vulnerable to 1, 2, and 4. It's very
> plugin-oriented (IMO), CPTs are an afterthought (mainly due to the age of
> the plugin) and it doesn't seem to follow WP paradigms (it has
> controllers/models, which most of WP doesn't).
>
> If the project is accepted, I'll definitely take existing work into
> consideration, but most of it isn't that great. The best inspiration so far
> has been WP.com's API endpoints.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Ryan McCue
> <http://ryanmccue.info/>
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