wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-plugins-controller.php:853Determine if the endpoints are available.
true|WP_Error protected function is_filesystem_available() { $filesystem_method = get_filesystem_method(); if ( 'direct' === $filesystem_method ) { return true; } ob_start(); $filesystem_credentials_are_stored = request_filesystem_credentials( self_admin_url() ); ob_end_clean(); if ( $filesystem_credentials_are_stored ) { return true; } return new WP_Error( 'fs_unavailable', __( 'The filesystem is currently unavailable for managing plugins.' ), array( 'status' => 500 ) ); }Introduced in 5.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-plugins-controller.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.