[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43316: REST API: Support autosaves

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#43316: REST API: Support autosaves
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 Reporter:  kraftbj                              |       Owner:  rmccue
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  REST API                             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing needs-unit-  |     Focuses:  rest-api
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Comment (by rmccue):

 Replying to [comment:65 azaozz]:
 > > > Also, the part: "User hits save: `POST
 /wp/v2/posts/{id}/revisions/{rev_id}`" would be an actual save, i.e. `POST
 /wp/v2/posts/{id}`.
 > >
 > > I was thinking this would be a cleaner way of the client actually
 "committing" the autosaved changes. It avoids the problem where an update
 to a somewhat-unrelated resource (the post) affects a bunch of others (all
 the autosaves). This is the current behaviour though:
 `wp_save_post_revision()` is called by `wp_insert_post()`, and it wipes
 out all the autosaves.
 >
 > Hm, `wp_save_post_revision()` doesn't wipe autosave revisions. It has
 some logic to keep a max number of revisions if they are limited by a
 plugin. The default is `-1` (unlimited). Also note that this logic
 specifically bypasses (keeps) autosave revisions, even when they are over
 the max.

 One other question here: how does the autosave actually get applied to the
 post?

 From what I'm understanding here, it seems like it doesn't ever get
 applied/committed. Rather, the editor just runs a real save with the full
 content, which doesn't touch the autosave process at all. When the user
 makes another change after that, the editor then starts autosaving stuff
 again. Is that accurate?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43316#comment:68>
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