Can’t retrieve color using rest api ?

  • Hi everyone,

    First thanks for this really useful plugin. I have some troubles to get it works – maybe due to me.

    I am using WP rest json api and I would like to add a ‘color’ field when requesting categories.

    The code doing this is really simple : 

    function get_category_color( $object, $field_name, $request ) {
	return get_term_meta($object['id'], ‘cc_color’, true);
}

    Here, get_term_meta exists (checked with function_exists) and $object['id'] is my category id.

    The table seems also good : 

    MariaDB [wordpress]> select * from wp_termmeta;
+---------+---------+----------+------------+
| meta_id | term_id | meta_key | meta_value |
+---------+---------+----------+------------+
|       1 |       5 | cc_color | #e5a629    |
|       2 |       3 | cc_color | #ff0245    |
|       3 |       2 | cc_color | #FF5B84    |
|       4 |       1 | cc_color | #8B80FE    |
|       5 |       6 | cc_color | #D50184    |
|       6 |       4 | cc_color | #850400    |
|       7 |       5 | cc_color | #e5a629    |
|       8 |       5 | cc_color | #e5a629    |
+---------+---------+----------+------------+

    But the ‘color’ fields is always an empty string. Of course, I’ve tried to check my setup by returning directly a string and it works great.

    I don’t really know what to do (I’m not really use to work with wp).

    Thanks a lot !

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  • Plugin Author Gesundheit Bewegt GmbH

    (@loyaltymanufaktur)

    Hello mildful,

    you should use object term_id instead of id to get the colour value.

    Best regards,
    Loyalty Manufaktur

    Thread Starter mildful

    (@mildful)

    Thanks for your answer.

    Unfortunatly, I’ve already tried this solution, maybe I do it wrong :

    
function get_category_color( $object, $field_name, $request ) {
	return get_term_meta(get_term($object['id'], $object['taxonomy'])->term_id, ‘cc_color’, true);
}

    I’ve also tried by directly giving the term_id (as an int) but the behavior is the same.

    If it may help you, Mildful, i made the following function inside my themes functions.php to grab the color code for the category.

    function insert_post_color() {
    global $post;
    $postcat = get_the_category( $post->ID );

    if ( ! empty( $postcat ) ) {
        $post_color = get_term_meta( $postcat[0]->cat_ID, 'cc_color', true);
    } else {
        $post_color = '#00659F'; //Return a default or fallback color if no colors exist
    }
    echo $post_color;
}

    Usage: Post the following code anywhere between php tags in a post, page or custom posttype which has categories. The function has a fallback if there aren’t any colors found.
    insert_post_color()

    Thread Starter mildful

    (@mildful)

    Hello Borneyak and thanks for your help !

    But I’m not sure to be able to use it since I use wordpress just as a REST API. My front is deserved by an Angular application.

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