[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50409: REST API about links should be embeddable.

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#50409: REST API about links should be embeddable.
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 Reporter:  herregroen   |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  REST API     |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  rest-api     |
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 Currently the `about` links in the REST API aren't embeddable using the
 `?_embed=true` parameter.

 Most likely cause I can think of is that, by default, this route (
 `wp/v2/types/$post_type` ) doesn't contain much information and as such
 there's likely no need for it.

 However plugins can add their own custom fields to post types that would
 be added to this route. Currently if one wishes to fetch that data an
 additional request would have to be made as it's not possible to embed the
 data in a previous request.

 Making the about link embeddable would give the option to consumers of the
 REST API to also easily fetch custom fields on post types without
 requiring an additional request.

 This change would be extremely minimal as it'd only require adding
 `'embeddable' => true`, on line 1864 in `wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints
 /class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php`.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50409>
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