WP REST API V2 - Modifying responses

Question

I am trying to modify the response object of a WP REST API (v2) call following this guide: http://v2.wp-api.org/extending/modifying/

I have a post type called Careers and a taxonomy called Regions.

Both are set to "show_in_rest" => true

I am using pretty permalinks.

When I GET mydomain/wp-json/wp/v2/careers it returns results as expected.

So far so good.

I wanted to return the taxonomy terms in the response so I added the following code to functions.php

add_action( 'rest_api_init', 'add_location_to_career_endpoint' );
function add_location_to_career_endpoint() {
    register_rest_field( 'career',
        'regions',
        array(
            'get_callback'    => 'career_get_the_region',
            'update_callback' => null,
            'schema'          => null,
        )
    );
}
function career_get_the_region( $object, $field_name, $request ) {
  return get_the_terms( $object[ 'id' ], $taxonomies, null);
}

This returns an array of terms against the key "regions" on one instance of WordPress (my development version).

My problem is when I move to staging (identical setup to dev) the taxonomy terms arent being returned.

register_rest_field() is running because if I add gibberish in $attribute ('regions') it throws an error. However the "regions" key and array is not being returned in my results.

Any help here would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

The issue was my staging and dev were using one minor version difference of the WP API plugin which Im assuming made a destructive change.