Embeds in collections

[colinhowells]

Is it possible to set _embed when using this? I gather that embeds are on for collections, but I'm unclear on what the syntax would be here; not sure if there's something like var postsCollection = new wp.api.collections.Posts( {}. { embed: 'yup' } ); and embeds seem to be off by default.

[adamsilverstein]

@colinhowells

Thanks for the question. The docs are a little weak here, I will try to improve that.

You should be able to get post _embed data directly from collections:

var posts = new wp.api.collections.Posts()
posts.fetch( { data: { _embed: true } } );

Here is how this looks in my console, with this parameter passed, the api returns all post meta data:

[colinhowells]

Ahhhhh it was staring me right in the face the whole time. Thanks, I'm still learning all this.

One question though: while now I can get to, say, post._embedded.author[0].name I can't get ahold of post._embedded.['https://api.w.org/featuredmedia'][0].media_details.sizes.medium.source_url due to the URL in there. I've tried it a few ways but I run into errors each time, I know there's something obvious I'm missing ...

[adamsilverstein]

@colinhowells:
I am able to get this with
postsCollection.models[0].attributes._embedded['https://api.w.org/featuredmedia'][0].media_details.sizes.medium.source_url

You could also use postsCollection.models[0].get( '_embedded' )['https://api.w.org/featuredmedia'][0].media_details.sizes.medium.source_url

What happens when you try that?

[colinhowells]

Turns out I had a dot in there I didn't need. I had _embedded.['https://api.w.org/featuredmedia'] but what I needed was _embedded['https://api.w.org/featuredmedia'] I wasn't expecting that, since _embedded.author[0] needs that dot. Evidently closing the URL in brackets serves the same function, which I didn't know.

[adamsilverstein]

Cool, marking this as resolved 👍 Thanks for building on this library!

Please share your project with the rest-api team when/if its in a public place!

[colinhowells]

Thanks for taking the time to help, I appreciate it!