wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-settings-controller.php:145Updates settings for the settings object.
$requestWP_REST_Requestarray|WP_ErrorOne hook fires while WP_REST_Settings_Controller::update_item() runs, in this order:
Filters whether to preempt a setting value update via the REST API.
public function update_item( $request ) { $options = $this->get_registered_options(); $params = $request->get_params(); foreach ( $options as $name => $args ) { if ( ! array_key_exists( $name, $params ) ) { continue; } /** * Filters whether to preempt a setting value update via the REST API. * * Allows hijacking the setting update logic and overriding the built-in behavior by * returning true. * * @since 4.7.0 * * @param bool $result Whether to override the default behavior for updating the * value of a setting. * @param string $name Setting name (as shown in REST API responses). * @param mixed $value Updated setting value. * @param array $args Arguments passed to register_setting() for this setting. */ $updated = apply_filters( 'rest_pre_update_setting', false, $name, $request[ $name ], $args ); if ( $updated ) { continue; } /* * A null value for an option would have the same effect as * deleting the option from the database, and relying on the * default value. */ if ( is_null( $request[ $name ] ) ) { /* * A null value is returned in the response for any option * that has a non-scalar value. * * To protect clients from accidentally including the null * values from a response object in a request, we do not allow * options with values that don't pass validation to be updated to null. * Without this added protection a client could mistakenly * delete all options that have invalid values from the * database. */ if ( is_wp_error( rest_validate_value_from_schema( get_option( $args['option_name'], false ), $args['schema'] ) ) ) { return new WP_Error( 'rest_invalid_stored_value', /* translators: %s: Property name. */ sprintf( __( 'The %s property has an invalid stored value, and cannot be updated to null.' ), $name ), array( 'status' => 500 ) ); } delete_option( $args['option_name'] ); } else { update_option( $args['option_name'], $request[ $name ] ); } } return $this->get_item( $request ); }Introduced in 4.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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