JSON API: allow more query parameters

[jeherve]

wpcom_json_api_request_as_blog() is currently used by Jetpack itself, but can also be used by third-party plugin authors via functions like stats_get_from_restapi().

Unfortunately, one cannot make custom API queries via stats_get_from_restapi() right now, because the query parameters are filtered out here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/4.4.2/class.jetpack-client.php#L273

Would it be possible to allow more parameters, so one can do requests like this for example:

// Retrieve the 50 more popular posts every week in the past 7 weeks.
$args = array(
    'num' => 7,
    'period' => 'week',
    'max' => 50,
);
$stats = stats_get_from_restapi( $args, 'top-posts' );

Reported in 2872802-t

[jeherve]

Related: #7059

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[danielbachhuber]

FYI (came across this via search) - I think you can work around the argument limit with something like this:

stats_get_from_restapi( array(), 'top-posts?max=100&summarize=1&num=2' );

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