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Chris Tucker commented on SOLR-1123:
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Is there really such a large use case for users who don't have a JSON plugin
installed but do need to view JSON results in the browser? An XML response
will almost certainly be rendered more readably for those users (in which case
the JSON point is moot), and if the user does intend to view JSON frequently
they simply install a JSON plugin: reading JSON as a big lump of text without
the aid of a plugin is not a manageable solution for most people I know.
Intentionally returning a known-wrong content type to work around a client
issue for casual users while causing a much bigger problem (thwarting
well-behaved clients, JSON plugins, and filters) for users who actually need to
work with this seems like a poor choice. I'd argue the default should be
changed to application/json immediately, and a separate (lower-priority) ticket
raised to address allowing the user to override the content-type in the
response if they so desire.
> Change the JSONResponseWriter content type
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>
> Key: SOLR-1123
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1123
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Uri Boness
> Fix For: 3.5, 4.0
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> Attachments: JSON_contentType_incl_tests.patch
>
>
> Currently the jSON content type is not used. Instead the palin/text content
> type is used. The reason for this as I understand is to enable viewing the
> json response as as text in the browser. While this is valid argument, I do
> believe that there should at least be an option to configure this writer to
> use the JSON content type. According to
> [RFC4627|http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt] the json content type needs to
> be application/json (and not text/x-json). The reason this can be very
> helpful is that today you have plugins for browsers (e.g.
> [JSONView|http://brh.numbera.com/software/jsonview]) that can render any page
> with application/json content type in a user friendly manner (just like xml
> is supported).
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