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WP_REST_Meta_Fields::check_meta_is_array( mixed $value, WP_REST_Request $request, string $param ): array|false

Since
4.7.0
Source
wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-meta-fields.php:584
Check the 'meta' value of a request is an associative array.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 4.7.0
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.

Parameters

$valuemixed
The meta value submitted in the request.
$requestWP_REST_Request
Full details about the request.
$paramstring
The parameter name.

Return value

array|false
The meta array, if valid, false otherwise.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_REST_Meta_Fields::check_meta_is_array() 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

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
6

Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 7.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_REST_Meta_Fields::check_meta_is_array() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always6none

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 7 instructions, 6 executed per call, 1 branch. The work does not change between versions.

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

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	public function check_meta_is_array( $value, $request, $param ) {		if ( ! is_array( $value ) ) {			return false;		} 		return $value;	}

Changelog

Introduced in 4.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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