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WP_REST_Templates_Controller::permissions_check( WP_REST_Request $request ): true|WP_Error

Since
5.8.0
Source
wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-templates-controller.php:182
Checks if the user has permissions to make the request.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 5.8.0
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

$requestWP_REST_Request
Full details about the request.

Return value

true|WP_Error
True if the request has read access, WP_Error object otherwise.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_REST_Templates_Controller::permissions_check() 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
6–17

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 18.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
3

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

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
current_user_can()6current_user_can()
!current_user_can()17current_user_can(), __(), rest_authorization_required_code(), status()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 18 instructions, 6–17 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.

Uses · 4

Used by · 3

Source code

	protected function permissions_check( $request ) {		/*		 * Verify if the current user has edit_theme_options capability.		 * This capability is required to edit/view/delete templates.		 */		if ( ! current_user_can( 'edit_theme_options' ) ) {			return new WP_Error(				'rest_cannot_manage_templates',				__( 'Sorry, you are not allowed to access the templates on this site.' ),				array(					'status' => rest_authorization_required_code(),				)			);		} 		return true;	}

Changelog

Introduced in 5.8.0. 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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