[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41370: REST API: Attempting to create an existing term yields HTTP 500

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#41370: REST API: Attempting to create an existing term yields HTTP 500
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 Reporter:  jnylen0                              |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  REST API                             |  Release
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:  4.7
 Keywords:  good-first-bug has-unit-tests has-   |  Resolution:
  patch                                          |     Focuses:  rest-api
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Changes (by shooper):

 * keywords:  needs-unit-tests good-first-bug needs-testing => good-first-
     bug has-unit-tests has-patch


Comment:

 Looked at @alibasheer's patch and wrote an updated one that returns an
 HTTP 409 if the term already exists.

 Unit test also included. The only thing I wasn't quite sure of is that I
 put the unit tests in the rest-categories-controller.php.  I did this as
 it already had the test to create a category, so this was an easy
 addition.  Not sure if it should have been somewhere more generic though.
 Open to suggestions.

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