It's a neat idea to have the response format smart-defaulted based on the POST content-type. +1 to that!
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:24 PM Yonik Seeley <ysee...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
