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Anshum Gupta commented on SOLR-12502: ------------------------------------- My thoughts echo what [~tomasflobbe] thinks and I feel like we should not keep our APIs in a flux, something that we have done in the past. I am not opposed to changes but if at all we do that I would want to be sure that we 1. ensure back-compat and 2. make sure the path we're trying to move on is a long term thing. > Unify and reduce the number of SolrClient#add methods > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-12502 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-12502 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public) > Components: SolrJ > Reporter: Varun Thacker > Priority: Major > > On SOLR-11654 we noticed that SolrClient#add has 10 overloaded methods which > can be very confusing to new users. > Also the UpdateRequest class is public so that means if a user is looking for > a custom combination they can always choose to do so by writing a couple of > lines of code. > For 8.0 which might not be very far away we can improve this situation > > Quoting David from SOLR-11654 > {quote}Any way I guess we'll leave SolrClient alone. Thanks for your input > Varun. Yes it's a shame there are so many darned overloaded methods... I > think it's a large part due to the optional "collection" parameter which like > doubles the methods! I've been bitten several times writing SolrJ code that > doesn't use the right overloaded version (forgot to specify collection). I > think for 8.0, *either* all SolrClient methods without "collection" can be > removed in favor of insisting you use the overloaded variant accepting a > collection, *or* SolrClient itself could be locked down to one collection at > the time you create it *or* have a CollectionSolrClient interface retrieved > from a SolrClient.withCollection(collection) in which all the operations that > require a SolrClient are on that interface and not SolrClient proper. > Several ideas to consider. > {quote} > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org