Stefan Matheis is likely the guy that knows. Personally I don't have a problem with those URL's - not really sure how it makes anything more difficult for developers...
Seems like a low priority change to me that would just break peoples current bookmarks and such. - Mark On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Mark Bennett <mark.benn...@lucidworks.com> wrote: > As part of making Solr easier to use for new developers, one of the JIRA's I > had filed was: > > SOLR-4431: Developer Curb Appeal: easier URL to get to Cloud UI > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4431 > > I've been trying to understand why we have such odd URLs in the first place, > and could they be simplified? > > I'm talking about URLs like: > http://localhost:8983/solr/#/ > http://localhost:8983/solr/#/~cores > http://localhost:8983/solr/#/~cloud > > I'm sure there's logical reasons for all of this, but I've had trouble > finding the original discussion threads on Google (terms like Solr and URL > have huge match sets) > > I looked around Solr's web.xml file and I see some references to # and ~, > but it doesn't really explain it, and there's a comment ("Remove in Solr > 5.0") that applies to at least one of the mappings; I wasn't sure of the > scope. > > Specific questions: > > * I assume this was discussed, maybe in JIRA? I was looking for the > original threads > * or, Why was this done? > > * Did it strike anybody as odd at that time? > > * Is this changing in Solr 5? If so, to what? > > * Or, could it be easily changed to remove "#/~" parts? (I imagine each > character has it's own reason for existing) > So ideally it'd be: > http://localhost:8983/solr/cores > http://localhost:8983/solr/cloud > > * If it can't be easily changed due to some architectural issue, could we > add some simple redirects to the web.xml file? (Even if we did change the > URLs, we'd probably want redirects to preserve the old URLs for a while) > > * Could we add web.xml rules to allow for Solr to be the root app? > So in default Jetty: > http://localhost:8983/admin > http://localhost:8983/cores > http://localhost:8983/cloud > http://localhost:8983/search/collection1?q=... > > I suspect the current URL structure is there for very good reasons, and > seemed like a good idea a few years ago. And I imagine somebody might have > even said "nobody types in URLs, they just bookmark everything!". But > developers and admins DO type in URLs all the time, and making things easier > for new developers is really important. And remember #'s and ~'s if you > don't use the tool every single day seems like a needless hassle. > > Is there some reasonable compromise here, maybe just with redirects, to make > Solr URL's really simple? > > Thanks for any info or links or comments! > Mark > > -- > Mark Bennett / LucidWorks: Search & Big Data / mark.benn...@lucidworks.com > Office: 408-898-4201 / Telecommute: 408-733-0387 / Cell: 408-829-6513 > > > > > > > -- - Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
