REST API: Support sanitize callbacks for nested properties

[ocean90]

Example schema:

'foobar' => [
	'required'    => true,
	'type'        => 'object',
	'properties'  => [
		'foo' => [
			'required'          => true,
			'type'              => 'string',
			'sanitize_callback' => 'sanitize_text_field',
		],
		'bar'    => [
			'required'          => true,
			'type'              => 'string',
			'sanitize_callback' => [ static::class, 'sanitize_bar' ],
		],
	],
],

Unfortunately, the required and sanitize_callback values are currently not used for properties. required is now handled in #48818. With support for sanitize_callback we'd have another way to enforce a specific format without much hassle.

Related:

• ​https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API/issues/2783
• ​https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQC26G/p1576689184011500

[TimothyBlynJacobs]

This would definitely be helpful. I'm not sure what the best way to go about it is.

We have rest_validate_request_from_schema, but that doesn't have any knowledge of the idea of sanitize_callback or validate_callback and I'd be hesitant to add that to what is a generic JSON schema validator/sanitizer.

Perhaps it could live in rest_validate_request_arg? Though for similar reasons as mentioned in #48818, it'd be much simpler to add it to rest_validate_value_from_schema since it handles schema traversing. Maybe we need a general purpose schema traversing function?

[TimothyBlynJacobs]

@ocean90 Could you share some examples of what kind of validation you would want to do in these instances?

I've been thinking that this might be better served by an API to register a JSON Schema format.

[ocean90]

@TimothyBlynJacobs Since I just stumbled upon this again, the most common so far is limiting a field to only plain strings without any HTML like sanitize_text_field() (or sanitize_textarea_field() does for us.
Maybe it's common enough to be added as a default text-field format?

[TimothyBlynJacobs]

I'm definitely +1 for a text-field format.

Probably going to create a separate ticket for this enhancement but it's related to #WP49960.

So far the formats are only used in rest_sanitize_value_from_schema() because I'm not sure how a validation should look like. Do we need one?

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49960

[desrosj]

Today is 5.8 feature freeze. Unfortunately this one ran out of time.

Punting to 5.9 as there has been good recent momentum.