First time creating custom endpoints. Ill be fetching posts from this site from another wordpres install.

Here is my plugin code.

/**
* Add endpoint URLs
*/    
public function __construct(){

    add_action('rest_api_init', function(){

        // Get submissions from the database
        register_rest_route('knpv-get','get-submissions', array(
            'methods'=>'GET', 
            'callback' => 'get_submissions_by_email'
            )
        );

    });

}

/**
* Get submisions by email endpoint callback
*/
public function get_submissions_by_email($data){

    $posts = get_posts();
    return $posts;

}

But all I get when i view the url (domain/wp-json/knpv-get/) in browser is:

    {"namespace":"knpv-get","routes":{"\/knpv-get":{"namespace":"knpv-get","methods":["GET"],"endpoints":[{"methods":["GET"],"args":{"namespace":{"required":false,"default":"knpv-get"},"context":{"required":false,"default":"view"}}}],"_links":{"self":"http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/knpv-get"}},"\/knpv-get\/get-submissions":{"namespace":"knpv-get","methods":["GET"],"endpoints":[{"methods":["GET"],"args":[]}],"_links":{"self":"http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/knpv-get\/get-submissions"}}},"_links":{"up":[{"href":"http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/"}]}}

What am I missing, shouldn't it return some posts. Its a fresh install so there's only Hello World to return.

First time creating custom endpoints. Ill be fetching posts from this site from another wordpres install.

Here is my plugin code.

/**
* Add endpoint URLs
*/    
public function __construct(){

    add_action('rest_api_init', function(){

        // Get submissions from the database
        register_rest_route('knpv-get','get-submissions', array(
            'methods'=>'GET', 
            'callback' => 'get_submissions_by_email'
            )
        );

    });

}

/**
* Get submisions by email endpoint callback
*/
public function get_submissions_by_email($data){

    $posts = get_posts();
    return $posts;

}

But all I get when i view the url (domain/wp-json/knpv-get/) in browser is:

    {"namespace":"knpv-get","routes":{"\/knpv-get":{"namespace":"knpv-get","methods":["GET"],"endpoints":[{"methods":["GET"],"args":{"namespace":{"required":false,"default":"knpv-get"},"context":{"required":false,"default":"view"}}}],"_links":{"self":"http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/knpv-get"}},"\/knpv-get\/get-submissions":{"namespace":"knpv-get","methods":["GET"],"endpoints":[{"methods":["GET"],"args":[]}],"_links":{"self":"http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/knpv-get\/get-submissions"}}},"_links":{"up":[{"href":"http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/"}]}}

What am I missing, shouldn't it return some posts. Its a fresh install so there's only Hello World to return.

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You're using the wrong route. The first two arguments of register_rest_route() ar the namespace, and the route. The URL to a REST API endpoint is:

(your domain) + '/wp-json/' + (namespace) + '/' + (route)

So the full URL to your endpoint is:

http://domain/wp-json/knpv-get/get-submissions

But you're attempting to view:

http://domain/wp-json/knpv-get

Which won't return the response from your callback function. However if you look closely at the result, you'll see that it's giving you a list of routes under the knpv-get namespace:

{
  "namespace": "knpv-get",
  "routes": {
    "\/knpv-get": {
      "namespace": "knpv-get",
      "methods": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "methods": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "args": {
            "namespace": {
              "required": false,
              "default": "knpv-get"
            },
            "context": {
              "required": false,
              "default": "view"
            }
          }
        }
      ],
      "_links": {
        "self": "http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/knpv-get"
      }
    },
    "\/knpv-get\/get-submissions": {
      "namespace": "knpv-get",
      "methods": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "methods": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "args": [

          ]
        }
      ],
      "_links": {
        "self": "http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/knpv-get\/get-submissions"
      }
    }
  },
  "_links": {
    "up": [
      {
        "href": "http:\/\/knoppysdev\/vendor-portal\/wp-json\/"
      }
    ]
  }
}