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WP_REST_Server::get_raw_data(): string

Since
4.4.0
Source
wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php:1945
Retrieves the raw request entity (body).

Compatibility

WordPress
since 4.4.0
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

string
Raw request data.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_REST_Server::get_raw_data() 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

Reads or writes the filesystem via file_get_contents().

Scaling
Constant

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

Instructions
4–8

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 8.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
1

1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What it touches

  • filesystemfilesystem accessfile_get_contents()called directly

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_REST_Server::get_raw_data() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
isset($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA)4none
!isset($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA)8file_get_contents()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 8 instructions, 4–8 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.

Used by · 1

Source code

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	public static function get_raw_data() {		// phpcs:disable PHPCompatibility.Variables.RemovedPredefinedGlobalVariables.http_raw_post_dataDeprecatedRemoved		global $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA; 		// $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA was deprecated in PHP 5.6 and removed in PHP 7.0.		if ( ! isset( $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA ) ) {			$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents( 'php://input' );		} 		return $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA;		// phpcs:enable	}

Changelog

Introduced in 4.4.0. 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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