Using meta_key and meta_value custom field arguments

[emilesilvis]

http://foo.co.za/wp_api/v1/posts?post_type=foo works, but I'm struggling to get http://foo.co.za/wp_api/v1/posts?post_type=foo&meta_key=bar&meta_value=baz to work.

Any ideas?

PS. Awesome plugin!

[shshaw]

Looking through the documentation and the code, it doesn't appear that meta_key and meta_value are accepted as parameters. Not sure there's a reason why, but it may just not be implemented yet.

[shshaw]

It looks like by adding

            'meta_key' => array( ),
            'meta_value' => array( ),

after line #107 of api/v1/controllers/Posts.php allows using those url parameters with no further tweaking necessary. Your example query of /wp_api/v1/posts?post_type=foo&meta_key=bar&meta_value=baz should work without a hitch.

Combined with @fardog's gist (or my small fork to fix a warning) and you have fantastic custom field support in Thermal API.

To the devs: Is there a reason these fields weren't included in the API? Security concerns or other issues? Any plans to implement better custom field support into the core?

[prettyboymp]

Meta was left out due to security concerns. We wanted to avoid making anything publicly queryable that wsan't normally public in WordPress. The convert_request() method in the posts controller does need to be reworked some to allow new request args to added to the query.