Syntax for including post_meta when creating a post

  • Ben

    (@benrich)


    11 years ago

    Hi. Can anyone spot something wrong with my syntax for including post meta data for a newly created post. Here’s my POST body:

    {
  "title": "random string",
  "content_raw": "randon string",
  "type": "location",
  "status": "publish",
  "post_meta": [
    {
      "key": "location_text",
      "value": "random string"
    }
  ]
}

    Without the post_meta element the post succeeds. With it I’m returned a 400 bad request:

    {
  "code": "json_meta_post_mismatch",
  "message": "Meta does not belong to this object"
}

    Ta!

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/json-rest-api/

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  • Thread Starter Ben

    (@benrich)

    11 years ago

    Hmmm.. turns out regardless of the 400 error it adds it anyway to the post. That’s not right

    enricodeleo

    (@enricodeleo)

    11 years ago

    I’m experiencing the same issue, furthermore it saves only the first object of the post_meta array. Any ideas?

    oliviercardoen

    (@oliviercardoen)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Is anyone using Pods Framework? Or some plugin using the ‘add_post_metadata’ filter?
    My problem has been solved when disabling the plugin returning a non-null value through this filter. I can create my post meta without any returned error from the API.

    I hope this might help.

    Thread Starter Ben

    (@benrich)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    I use Pods a lot so it’s very possible it was installed. (thanks for the contribution!)

    robtown

    (@robtown)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    I’m not using Pods.

    None of this worked for me.

    I also tried setting “feature_image” to an image post id, nothing.

    Then I inspected an object returned from /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/<id> and noticed a “featured_media”: “0” in the json, so I tried setting that value to an image post id and it worked.
    so my POST looks like this:

    {
                method: "POST",
                url: "http://<domain>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts" ,
                headers: { 'Authorization' : 'Basic ' + $scope.au },
                data: {
                title: $scope.postData.title,
                content: $scope.postData.content,
                status: $scope.postData.status,
                featured_media: $scope.imageid,
                post_meta: [
                    {
                        "key": "_thumbnail_id",
                        "value":  $scope.imageid
                    }]
             }

    I’m still working on getting oAuth1.0a to work correctly, so I’m using Basic Authentication for development.

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