v1.1.2 If I Survive

  • Resolves an issue where authentication credentials where not maintained properly when iterating through pages of a connection with ._paging.next or ._paging.prev, props @motleydev for the reproducible bug report
  • Introduces a --file flag for the update-default-routes-json command-line script

v1.1.1 Music For The Masses

  • Resolves an issue where certain route paths would cause a fatal error in the route tree parser, props @obenland for diagnosing the bug

v1.1.0 Where’s Your Head At

  • Implement a .setHeader() method for WPAPI and WPRequest objects to send arbitrary HTTP headers with outgoing API requests, props @anagio, @andreasvirkus, @gnarf, @Matthewnie, @mnivoliez, & @mzalewski
  • Clarify CORS requirements in README, props @entr
  • Improve inline documentation & switch from YUIDoc to JSDoc

v1.0.3 Couleurs Primaires

  • Properly parse API response text when response is sent back with Content-Type “text/html”

v1.0.2 Recto Verso

  • Upgrade Superagent dependency to avoid “double callback” error when JSON response contains extraneous HTML content
  • Fix documentation inaccuracies following the merge of the REST API plugin into WordPress core

Patch release named for Paradis’ 2016 LP “Recto Verso”.

v1.0.1 The Only Constant is Change

  • Support endpoints using “plain permalinks”, props @luisherranz

This patch release is named for The Only Constant is Change, a track from v1.0 namesake album Emotional Technology by BT.

v1.0.0 Emotional Technology

  • Add CHANGELOG.md
  • Reduce complexity of, and rename, default routes JSON file
  • BREAKING: Remove third “merge” argument from .param() method signature
  • Document .settings() top-level route handler
  • BREAKING: Return API error objects directly from HTTP transport: only return a transport-level error object in the event of a non-API error
  • Add .status() parameter method mixin
  • Properly register .password() and .sticky() parameter mixins
  • Utilize the HTTP transport methods during auto-discovery process
  • Replace lodash.reduce with custom objectReduce method throughout codebase to reduce browser bundle size

This release is named for BT’s 2003 album Emotional Technology.

v0.12.1 You Only Live Once -Instrumental-

This patch release fixes an issue where valid post type identifiers (or PCRE capture group names) are not properly intercepted and mapped to camelCase path part setters.

Props @gambry

v0.12.0 You Only Live Once

This release makes breaking changes to how endpoint filtering methods are bound, specifically reacting to the removal of the ?filter query parameter which is not present in WordPress 4.7’s API endpoints.

New filtering methods:

  • .categories()
  • .tags()

Both of these methods support querying by ID only. If a slug is provided it will not work in 4.7, due to the removal of filter, unless the rest-filter plugin is installed & active on the remote WordPress site.

Deprecated filtering methods:

  • .category() (for filtering by associated terms; use .tags())
  • .tag() (for filtering by associated terms; use .tags())

Note: these method names may be retained, but the functionality which delegates to .filter() to query by term slug will be removed.

Removed filtering methods:

  • .name(): use .slug() (deprecated previously)
  • .filter(): available as a mixin but no longer enabled by default
  • .path() (for Pages)

Props @joaojeronimo, @Ohar, @ryelle

This release is named for w.hatano’s latest EP You Only Live Once

v0.11.0 Super

The theme for v0.11 is better parameter handling. Several parameters are now supported that apply to all default content routes, and this release also features a complete overhaul of the handling for registering mixins and custom query parameter setters with .registerRoute().

Parameter convenience methods

.order(), .orderby(), .offset(), .exclude(), .include(), .page(), .perPage() and .slug() are now supported for all request handlers generated by this library, not just for some resources.

Setting Parameters on Custom Routes

The .param( name, val ) method is always available for custom route handler instances, but the convenience of .filter and other overloaded setters was not available to custom routes without some sleuthing through the code for this library (#203). To remedy this situation, a params array can now be provided on the registerRoute configuration object. If a method is available for a parameter (such as filter), it will be used; if no method exists, a setter for that property will be created:

site.handler = site.registerRoute( 'myplugin/v1', 'collection/(?P<id>)', {
    params: [
      // Listing any of the parameters with built-in handlers will
      // assign that built-in chaining method to the route handler:
      'filter',
      'author',
      // `.customparam()` will be created as well, as a shortcut
      // for `.param( 'customparam', val )
      'customparam'
    ]
});

Parameter convenience methods for Beta 14+ & beyond

If you are running the bleeding-edge develop branch of the API, there is now a .sticky( [boolean] ) method to support the new sticky posts handling recently added to the REST API.

If you are actually running the REST API plugin in the future, this library now also provides a .password() method for use in setting the password needed to access the content for a password-protected post. (The PR for adding that parameter should land later this week.)

This release is named for the Pet Shop Boys’ latest album Super

Props @edygar, @ludoo0d0a, @marcianosr, @sdgluck, and @stephanmax, for issues, PRs, feedback & discussions.

v0.10.0 Abaporu

v0.10 standardizes the name of the constructor exposed by this module as “WPAPI”, and creates a seam through which HTTP interactions can be customized or overridden. This release is named for Brazilian DJ Gui Boratto’s fourth studio album Abaporu (Kompakt, 2014).

Module Naming

The constructor exposed by this module should be referred to as WPAPI in all cases. This has been updated across the documentation site, source code, and examples within code comments.

There is remaining inconsistency throughout the docs & test suite between whether an instance of WPAPI is referred to as wp or as site; this will not be addressed at this time, the identifier used to hold the WP site client instance is left up to the library consumer.

Custom HTTP Transport Behavior

Custom HTTP transport methods may be provided to inject or short-circuit HTTP behavior for each type of request; methods may be specified via a .transport property on the configuration object passed to the WP constructor, or by passing an object of transport methods to the .transport() method on the instantiated WP object.

Props @edygar

v0.9.3 Frontier Psychiatrist, 85% Instrumental

Built bundles in browser/ did not make it into previous publish!

v0.9.2 Frontier Psychiatrist

  • Added .toString() method to WPRequest objects, which returns the full rendered URI for a query
  • Added .before and .after chaining methods to specify date queries
  • Improvements to integration tests & documentation

Deprecated Methods:

  • ._renderURI() method on WPRequest object (use .toString)
  • .post() HTTP method on WPRequest object (use .create)
  • .put() HTTP method on WPRequest object (use .update)

Props for this patch release:

Issues, Bugs, Documentation Requests & Discussion: @BenHen75, @brianloveswords, @gnarf, @ludoo0d0a, @nodeGarden, @preschian, @sdgluck, @tommedema, @vtripolitakis, @wblaircox, @z-avanes

I felt strangely hypnotized

v0.9.1 Since I Left You

v0.9 brings two long-neglected features to the foreground: media support and browser-side usage. This release is named in homage to The Avalanches’ absurdly brilliant Since I Left You.

Media Handling

wp.media() requests now provide a .file() chaining method, which can be used to specify the file system path of a file to upload (in node) or the contents of a file input (in a browser). This permits images and other media to be uploaded to the WordPress site in the same command which creates the media record.

Browserify/Webpack Support

Requiring wpapi as a dependency in a Browserified or Webpacked build now results in a much slimmer file bundle,

Miscellaneous Fixes

  • Irritating warning messages generated on WP instantiation have been removed (reported by @elyobo)
  • registerRoute no longer improperly lowercases camelCased path part setters (reported by @joneslloyd)
  • The WP constructor now throws a nice error if the endpoint property is not a string, not just if it is falsy (props @sdgluck)
  • JSDoc fix (props @sdgluck)

Props

For pull requests and patches: @bt, @sdgluck

For opening issues and asking or discussing questions: @elyobo, @joneslloyd, @mrkrumhausen, @satish9323, @smedegaard, @tommedema, @vtripolitakis, @z-avanes

v0.9.0

(Note: v0.9.0 was beta only)

v0.8.0 New Eyes

This release makes some key changes, adds some essential functionality, and re-wires things under the hood. I am unilaterally adopting the model of naming releases after albums, because I am releasing this in Vienna and “Mozart’s House” by Clean Bandit (New Eyes, track 1) has been stuck in my head throughout WordCamp Europe.

Autodiscovery

Autodiscovery is now supported via the WP.discover method (#181)

Bootstrapping

If you already have the API response object you want to bootstrap with, the .routes property from it can now be passed in when calling WP.site or instantiating a new WP object (also #181, documented #182):

var site = WP.site( 'http://my-endpoint.com/wp-json', endpointJSON.routes );

A script to ease the process of downloading this JSON object was added in PR #175

registerRoute

Arbitrary methods for custom endpoints can now be added without auto-discovery by using the .registerRoute method, which takes the same route configuration strings as register_rest_route in the API core.

Internal Re-Architecture

In #168 the innards of the library were totally gutted and re-written to support auto-discovery, registerRoute and bootstrapping.

Human-Readable names for HTTP verbs

PUT and POST are not the most intuitive words for what they do, and POST in particular caused a lot of semantic confusion with the post object within the WordPress data model. .post has become .create, and .put has become .update.

Upgraded Dependencies

Package dependencies and developer tools have all been updated to the latest version in their respective ranges.

Props

Props and gratitude to the community that submitted code, bugs, issues, questions, or comments that added to & informed this release.

For general advice and conceptual validation: @rmccue

For assisting with the discussion about how to handle autodiscovery and custom route endpoints: @adamsilverstein, @aedensixty, @andreipot, @artoliukkonen, @BenHen75, @chrishutchinson, @elyobo, @gnarf, @ishaan-puniani, @jasonphillips, @joehoyle, @jupitercow, @timmyc

For opening issues and asking questions: @aedensixty, @dasheck0, @jsteranko, @nabeards, @satish9323, @stompweb

v0.7.0

  • Fix an improper value check in WP-Request (props @artoliukkonen)
  • Fix URL typo in documentation (props @pdewouters)
  • Do not include empty query parameters in generated query strings
  • Remove .version() method, use .namespace() for both “namespace” AND “version” components of the URL
  • Remove posts chaining methods that now refer to top-level collections
  • Remove duplicate date query code
  • Update integration test suite for v2 beta 12 post deletion changes
  • Add documentation on integration test suite (props @elyobo)
  • Improve structure of the contributors.md file to prioritize testing
  • Add support for /comments collection (props @akira28)

v0.6.0

(v0.6.0 was lost in the endless sea)

v0.5.0

This release adds support for nonce-based authentication, useful when making API requests from the client side: props @gerhardsletten

v0.4.0

adds .posts().meta() method

v0.3.1

This release resolves an issue with the query string formatting encountered when requesting posts of multiple types in the same query

v0.3.0

The main new feature in 0.3.0 is initial support for collection pagination: Pagination data is exposed in a _paging property on response collections, if additional pages of collection objects are available.

v0.2.3

This release adds basic support for working with paginated responses

v0.2.2

This release improves the error handling around failed SuperAgent calls. Many thanks to @bmac for the bug fix!

v0.2.1

Added in this release:

  • wp.taxonomy() convenience method for retrieving a taxonomy object
  • wp.categories() convenience method for retrieving category terms
  • wp.tags() convenience method for retrieving post_tag terms

v0.2.0

  • Force authentication where it would be convenient
  • Add a /media endpoint handler method
  • Add a .root() method for querying custom endpoints
  • Add registerType custom post type request method generator
  • Introduce CollectionRequest constructor
  • Add support for .params
  • Changed PostsRequest to set comment targets via comment(), not id()
  • Remove PATCH method handling from library (After discussion with @rmccue, the recommended way to request resource updates is via PUT)
  • Add pages().path() method for querying by page path string
  • Add pages endpoint handler and tests
  • Add a method to get post type objects from /posts/types(/)
  • Fix hole in unit tests for WPRequest.then; closes #44
  • Require Node.js >= 0.10 in package.json & add npm keywords
  • Implementing structured route generation
  • Add contributing guide
  • Add NPM script aliases for the registered Grunt tasks
  • Standardize constructor naming in README examples
  • Add WP.site static convenience method for creating new sites

v0.1.1

Initial Release