Prepares a meta value for a response.

This is required because some native types cannot be stored correctly in the database, such as booleans. We need to cast back to the relevant type before passing back to JSON.

$value mixed Required

Meta value to prepare.

$request WP_REST_Request Required

Current request object.

$args array Required

Options for the field.

mixed Prepared value.

File: wp-includes/rest-api/fields/class-wp-rest-meta-fields.php. View all references

protected function prepare_value_for_response( $value, $request, $args ) {
	if ( ! empty( $args['prepare_callback'] ) ) {
		$value = call_user_func( $args['prepare_callback'], $value, $request, $args );
	}

	return $value;
}