Just a reminder that we have had indented JSON query responses by default at the "/query" endpoint for years. That doesn't cover other handlers though. Readability/aesthetics of our docs/examples is where the biggest deficiency lies - lots of XML examples that could have been JSON for a long time now. Hopefully this change would prevent new docs from being written that use XML output format.
Other thoughts: - The /query endpoint should remain, no need to break everyone who has been using it - I assume sending XML to the existing update handler should perhaps continue to return an XML response? - I assume that it's desirable to have indentation by default... but this is also a slight back compat change/break for people that currently specify JSON and expect it un-indented (for some response types, the difference could be large, like 2x). If we go this way, we need to add that to the CHANGES as well. -Yonik On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Trey Grainger <solrt...@gmail.com> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
