Sounds great. I agree! I can imagine there might be really old client libraries/integrations that assume XML without sending a wt, but I think it's ok to break those sorts of things in a major release. And those folks can learn to send wt=xml
-Doug On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:53 PM Trey Grainger <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wanted to throw this out there for discussion. Solr's default query > response format is still XML, despite the fact that Solr has supported the > JSON response format for over a decade, developer mindshare has clearly > shifted toward JSON over the years, and most modern/competing systems also > use JSON format now by default. > > In fact, Solr's admin UI even explicitly adds wt=json to the request (by > default in the UI) to override the default of wt=xml, so Solr's Admin UI > effectively has a different default than the API. > > We have now introduced things like the JSON faceting API, and the new more > modern /V2 apis assume JSON for the areas of Solr they cover, so clearly > we're moving in the direction of JSON anyway. > > I'd like propose that we switch the default response writer to JSON > (wt=json) instead of XML for Solr 7.0, as this seems to me like the right > direction and a good time to make this change with the next major version. > > Before I create a JIRA and submit a patch, though, I wanted to check here > make sure there were no strong objections to changing the default. > > -Trey Grainger >
