Use REST API for link query in editor

[iseulde]

This doesn't necessarily show best practices or whatever, it's just replacing and admin ajax endpoint with a REST API one and not a big change.

Reviewing the implementation of this is a good place to start, e.g. handling date formatting.

Patch still needs date formatting and query other post types.

[rachelbaker]

Love this! Thanks @iseuldebot

[iseulde]

One of the things I run into with this: there seems to be no way to query all post types as once (or a set) like you can do with WP_Query. So you have to start making multiple requests which is a bit insane.

[afercia]

I'm totally new to the REST API so I may be wrong, but maybe one thing to consider when using the API in core is that it returns by default all the post fields including the content. With very long posts the response could be huge, while here we need just the ID, title, permalink, and date (the "info").

[afercia]

Re: date formatting see #39222 and #38342.

[TimothyBlynJacobs]

We have the search endpoints now, so I don't think this is necessary any longer.