Although I solved the last issue, a similar one immediately came up after that (The topic count at the top of a forum didn’t count new topics). I had a feeling that as long as I proceeded with this hacked version of the actual bbPress functions that I now thankfully know are responsible for topic creation (thank you Robin, again!), these little discrepencies were going to keep popping up.
So I’ve updated the ‘create_bill’ function to now call bbp_insert_topic() (line 24 of \bbpress\includes\topics\functions.php). If I understand things correctly (I’m new to web development and learning as I go), this starts the natural chain of events that should happen anytime a new topic is created (at least it looks to be working). I still need the new endpoint because I’d like to add some custom fields to these topics as well, so now the above php script is the much simpler:
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: bbPress Bill API
* Description: Exposing the bbPress post types to WP API and creating a namespace for bills.
* Author: Rillien Cot
* Version: 1.6.0
*/
/**
* Add REST API support to an already registered post type.
*/
add_action('init', 'register_bbp_post_types', 25);
function register_bbp_post_types() {
global $wp_post_types;
$post_type_name = bbp_get_reply_post_type();
if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
}
$post_type_name = bbp_get_topic_post_type();
if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
}
$post_type_name = bbp_get_forum_post_type();
if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
$wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
}
// Add custom REST API endpoint for creating bbPress topic
add_action('rest_api_init', 'create_bill_endpoint');
}
function create_bill_endpoint() {
register_rest_route('pnyx/v2', '/bill/', array(
'methods' => 'POST',
'callback' => 'create_bill',
));
}
function create_bill($data) {
// Extract Data
$new_topic_data = $data['new_post_data'];
$new_topic_meta = $data['new_post_meta'];
// Create new bbPress topic using passed data and meta content
$topic_id = bbp_insert_topic($new_topic_data, $new_topic_meta);
// Add ACF custom fields to created topic
update_field('bill_id', $data['bill_id'], $topic_id);
}
?>
and the python that calls it is:
import requests
import json
# Set your WordPress API authentication details
username = "************"
password = "***********************"
auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)
# Create a new post data with post_parent
new_post_payload = {
"new_post_data": {
"post_parent": 40, // use a valid forum_id from your site
"post_title": "API Created Post Title",
"post_content": "Lorem ipsum content for the new topic",
},
"new_post_meta": {
"forum_id": 40, //use same forum_id here that you used for "post parent" in 'new_post_data'
},
"bill_id": "hrs1111",
}
# Make the POST request to create a new post
wordpress_api_url = "http://pnyx.local/wp-json/pnyx/v2/bill/"
response = requests.post(
wordpress_api_url,
auth=auth,
headers={
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
data=json.dumps(new_post_payload),
)
You’ll notice that the ‘data’ portion of the request has changed from a simple dictionary to nested dictionaries so the bbp_insert_topic function has the correct arguments (it takes two arrays).
