[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42202: REST API: no equivalent for `who=authors` to display potential authors

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#42202: REST API: no equivalent for `who=authors` to display potential authors
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 Reporter:  iseulde      |       Owner:  joehoyle
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  REST API     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by dd32):

 * keywords:   => needs-patch
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => 5.0


Comment:

 Bumping this to 5.0 since Gutenberg needs this in some form anyway.

 `/users?capability=publish_posts` seems like it'd be most consistent given
 there exists `/users?roles=author` already, however, it seems like it
 could create an expensive query fast :)

 It's worth noting that `who=authors` currently doesn't base on
 roles/capabilities (as per #16841), it's based on `user_level != 0`.
 So for Gutenbergs usage it'd probably be a query like
 `/users?capability=level_1,level_2,level_3,..., level_10` currently (and
 in future, `?capability=$some_custom_field_from_post_type_description`).
 It could also be implemented as `/users?capability_not=level_0`.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42202#comment:7>
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