WP_Post_Type::get_rest_controller(): WP_REST_Controller|null
- Since
- 5.3.0
- Source
wp-includes/class-wp-post-type.php:869
Description
Will only instantiate the controller class once per request.
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 5.3.0
- PHP
- 7.4–8.6-dev
- 6.7.7
- 6.8.8
- 6.9.7
- 7.0.4
- 7.1.0
Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.
Return value
WP_REST_Controller|null- The controller instance, or null if the post type is set not to show in rest.
Performance profile
How much work a call to WP_Post_Type::get_rest_controller() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.
- Cost class
- Trivial
- Scaling
- Constant
- Instructions
- 3–30
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 0
Touches nothing outside its own arguments.
No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 35.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.
What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_Post_Type::get_rest_controller() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 3–10 | none |
$class | 14–30 | is_subclass_of() |
Across PHP versions
| PHP | Compiled | Executed | Branches | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6-dev | 35 | 3–30 | 6 | |
| 8.5 | 35 | 3–30 | 6 | |
| 8.4 | 35 | 3–30 | 6 | 2 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3 |
| 8.3 | 37 | 3–32 | 6 | |
| 8.2 | 37 | 3–32 | 6 | |
| 8.1 | 37 | 3–32 | 6 | 1 fewer instruction than PHP 7.4 |
| 7.4 | 38 | 3–33 | 6 |
An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.
Source code
public function get_rest_controller() { if ( ! $this->show_in_rest ) { return null; } $class = $this->rest_controller_class ? $this->rest_controller_class : WP_REST_Posts_Controller::class; if ( ! class_exists( $class ) ) { return null; } if ( ! is_subclass_of( $class, WP_REST_Controller::class ) ) { return null; } if ( ! $this->rest_controller ) { $this->rest_controller = new $class( $this->name ); } if ( ! ( $this->rest_controller instanceof $class ) ) { return null; } return $this->rest_controller; }Changelog
Introduced in 5.3.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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