[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39634: Customize: Add REST API endpoints for panels, sections, controls, settings, and partials

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#39634: Customize: Add REST API endpoints for panels, sections, controls, settings,
and partials
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 Reporter:  westonruter  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.8
Component:  Customize    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  rest-api
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Description changed by westonruter:

Old description:

> In order to make the customizer a REST API-backed application, the
> objects that it uses need to have REST API endpoints. In addition to
> having an endpoint for changesets (#38900), there should be endpoints for
> getting a list of the panels, sections, controls, settings, and partials.
> One immediate benefit for these endpoints will be to allow for the
> objects to be lazy-loaded when needed (#28580) to improve performance.
> This will also facilitate bootstrapping the customizer onto the frontend
> so that customization can be done without going to `customize.php`.

New description:

 In order to make the customizer a REST API-backed application, the objects
 that it uses need to have REST API endpoints. In addition to having an
 endpoint for changesets (#38900), there should be endpoints for getting a
 list of the panels, sections, controls, settings, and partials. One
 immediate benefit for these endpoints will be to allow for the objects to
 be lazy-loaded when needed (#28580) to improve performance. Having schemas
 attached to `WP_Customize_Setting` would also allow controls to be
 generated automatically with the appropriate validation constraints
 (#38845). This will also facilitate bootstrapping the customizer onto the
 frontend so that customization can be done without going to
 `customize.php`.

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