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WP REST API PSR-7 is a small library which creates a bridge between the PSR-7 standards and interfaces and the WordPress REST API Response and Request classes. You can include it via composer in any theme or plugin which needs this.

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Development for the WordPress REST API started before the PSR-7 was finalized. This standard made a great way for different libraries to be able to interact using a common interface. Unfortunately, since WordPress missed it, the standard WP_REST_Request and WP_REST_Response classes are not PSR-7 compliant.

This means that any library which extends HTTP Messages using the PSR-7 standard are not compatible with WordPress by default. Bummer! Our team ran into this limitation when attempting to use the OAuth2 Server library.

When would I need this?

This is the sort of thing where you don't need it until you do and when you do you'll know it's missing. 🙂

Things to keep in mind

When generating a WP_REST_PSR7_Request from a request, the body is passed directly to the PSR-7 body stream. This means that any validation and sanitization that WP_REST_Server provides may not be applied. Be aware of this and make sure that sanitization and validation are applied if the library does not.