[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60769: Block Hooks: Consolidate approach to get the list of hooked blocks.

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#60769: Block Hooks: Consolidate approach to get the list of hooked blocks.
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 Reporter:  tomjcafferkey  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General        |    Version:
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                 |
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 Our current approach to getting hooked blocks has two parts to it:

 1. We use `get_hooked_blocks()` to get all of the hooked blocks which are
 hooked from the `block.json` file.
 2. In function `insert_hooked_blocks` we apply the filter callbacks
 (passing a derived value from step 1 as the default value) to get hooked
 blocks that are applied by the `hooked_block_types` filter.

 Currently it's a bit confusing and without knowledge you'd assume
 `get_hooked_blocks()` would retrieve ''all'' of the hooked blocks.
 Additionally it feels like you have to run a few different pieces of code
 separately and combine their resulting values to get a complete picture
 which could result in some bugs or unnecessary complexities.

 I feel there's room for improvement to provide a better API for getting
 all of the hooked blocks by consolidating these two approaches into a
 single function somehow.

 How this to work we would also need to know the current context so we can
 pass that data to the filter callbacks.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60769>
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