Consuming REST in Wordpress

Question

Good morning!

I implemented a Rest API with Spring and would like to consume it on a site within Wordpress.

This is done through Plugins or direct with code within the Post?

For a Post Request, how would link the data of a form in the http request?

Thank you.

Answer 1

If you have "implemented a Rest API" I think you just need to know the native WP methods for making requests:

wp_remote_get()

wp_remote_post()

Under the hood they do more or less the same thing, use the same method to make external requests, and you pass in the arguments the type of request (POST, PUT, UPDATE, etc), the headers and other information.

example of documentation:

$response = wp_remote_get( 'http://www.example.com/index.html', $args );

if ( is_array( $response ) && ! is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
    $headers = $response['headers']; // array of http header lines
    $body    = $response['body']; // use the content
}