We could put commented out wt=xml in the solrconfig.xml as a secondary reminder.
Regards,
Alex
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On 15 April 2017 at 03:53, Doug Turnbull
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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