Get /users/me details from Wordpress backend

Question

Is there anyway to get the same details as /users/me api command but in WP backend?

I have backend function that would get the user meta details

custom api /user_meta

public myFunc( $userId ) {
    $user_meta = get_user_meta( $userId );

    return $user_meta
}

The user meta field has an ACF option that is formatted strange

"place": [
    "a:1:{i:0;s:12:\"Earth\";}"
],

But when using the /users/me API call, the return is

/users/me default wp api

"place": [
    "Earth"
],

Although I could use a conjunction of both apis to get the proper user meta details, it isn't ideal. Is there anyway of getting the /users/me api call in wordpress backend?

Answer 1

"a:1:{i:0;s:12:\"Earth\";}"

This is a PHP serialized value. If you pass it to unserialize you'll get back the array you're expecting. (And it looks like you've edited it because "Earth" is not 12 characters long: that should be s:5:"Earth".)

However I'm surprised that get_user_meta doesn't already do this for you: it passes the value it's fetched from the database through maybe_unserialize() before it's returned to you, which ought to do this automatically for you. Is there any chance you've double-serialized this before storing the string in the database? (And note also the warning on the documentation page about unserializing arbitrary user-provided strings.)

To answer the general question though, everything you can get from /users/me is available with normal API calls and you don't need to use the REST API from inside WordPress itself.