[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
  tests                                          |
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Comment (by adamsilverstein):

 Some good points have been made here and its time to take stock of all the
 feedback and move forward! The lack of any autosave capability is a
 blocker for merging Gutenberg because without it autosaves are essentially
 broken.

 My intuition and initial  idea was a separate Autosave controller. Still,
 I liked the idea of adding autosave capability to the revisions controller
 (as @rmccue suggested in 43316.13.diff) because of their technical
 similarity, or even adding to the posts controller with a flag as
 originally proposed in 43316.patch by @azaozz...

 However from the client's perspective these actually seem like pretty
 different concepts. As @schlessera keeps pointing out, its the difference
 in the ''concepts of autosave vs. revision vs post'' that suggests a
 separate autosave endpoint is appropriate. The fact that technically
 autosaves are very similar to revisions and even posts is an
 implementation detail that doesn't concern clients.

 To those on this thread advocating alternate approaches, can you agree to
 moving ahead with a separate Autosaves controller (latest in
 43316.12.diff​) and if not, what blocking concerns remain?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43316#comment:75>
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