[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1579: Plugins API

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#1579: Plugins API
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 Reporter:  obenland          |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Plugin Directory v3 - M4
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by dd32):

 We need
  * A stand alone PHP script which reads the WordPress postmeta table to
 perform updates
  * (ideally) A stand alone PHP script which can handle the
 `plugin_information` requests & `/hello-dolly.json` requests. I'd probably
 suggest we should just cache a full response from the REST API (`/wp-
 json/plugins/v1/plugin/hello-dolly/`) and handle the `fields` and
 conditional wp_version checks, as well as the output format (PHP
 serialized, XML, and JSON) in that handler
  * A REST API Endpoint which can be used for the `hot_tags` endpoint
  * A REST API Endpoint which can be used for the `query_plugins`
 endpoints, this mostly wraps `WP_Query` but has a lot of random and weird
 logic burried in it

 Loading WordPress for all these requests isn't going to be viable, but for
 some we'll have little choice.
  - The update handler should most definitely ''not'' load WordPress at
 all.
  - The `hot_tags` handler could just cache the result of the WordPress
 endpoint, so it doesn't require loading WordPress often.
  - The `plugin_information` handler would be a good one to cache, and not
 hit WordPress on, as it's requested often enough and accounts for a
 significant amount of the api traffic.
  - The `plugin_information` handler via `hello-dolly.json` should be made
 cacheable, that means it should only use the data contained within the URL
 for the response, fetching the WordPress version from the user_agent isn't
 viable

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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1579#comment:13>
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