Accessing plugin functionality within WP REST API

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I’m using the WP REST API to trigger a task from an AJAX request, my callback function attempts to trigger an action found within a plugin, however, that plugin doesn’t appear to have loaded.

The following code is within my functions.php file:

add_action('rest_api_init', function() {

    register_rest_route('foo/v1', '/capture-payments', array(
        'methods' => 'POST',
        'callback' => [$this, 'capturePayments'],
    ));

});

public static function capturePayments($request) {

    // this action doesn't load, because the plugin hasn't loaded
    if ( ! has_action('name_of_plugin_action') ) {
        return new \WP_Error('payment_capture_not_available', 'Payment capture is not available', array('status' => 500));
    }

    ...

}

My question is, is there a way to load the plugins for this API request, such that I can access their functionality as I would within a normal theme?

Edit 1:

It might be worth noting that this used within the admin, for purely backend purposes.

1 Answer
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I have figured out the problem, after trying a load of things I wanted to double check plugins weren’t being loaded at all within the REST API.

I added some rudimentary debugging to the plugin in question and I saw that the plugin was indeed being loaded, my issue was that in these conditions the plugin itself wasn’t exposing functionality it would do under a normal request.

The do_action I wanted to achieve therefore was failing, as it hadn’t been registered. I simply invoked the class that registered the action and now my code works as desired.

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