I’d very much like to see this as well. I’ve been thinking that I would look to migrate the Solr Admin to using the v2 API, and I suspect it will identify any number of gaps/areas of improvement in the v2 API itself.
> On Oct 26, 2021, at 3:10 PM, Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm starting this thread to highlight a subject that came up in the > recent "Solr 9.0 Release Blockers" thread: our v2 API. As a TL;DR, > should the v2 API be considered "experimental"? > > We haven't explicitly called the v2 API experimental up to this point, > but I'd argue that in essence it already is. In previous releases it > was largely undocumented, had little or no SolrJ support, missed > parity with v1 in terms of endpoints and parameters, and wasn't > included in test randomization. It's hard to imagine how someone > could have been using the v2 API nontrivially in our past releases. > > Treating v2 as "experimental" just feels much more like calling a > "spade" a "spade", and sends a more accurate signal to our users. It > would also have practical benefits: experimental code is traditionally > free from backcompat guarantees, so an "experimental" designation > would remove a big impediment for those improving the v2 API. > > Knowingly setting backcompat aside is always scary, and of course, we > don't have any means to know for sure how many users v2 has today. > But if we judge from the few signals we do have, the number must be > very small. e.g. The last user-list email that mentions a v2 API path > is "Atomic update error with JSON handler" from May of 2018! > > Potential backcompat breaks might inconvenience that small set of > users, but that inconvenience would be vastly outweighed by the > benefit to all our users of getting a cleaner, more consistent API out > sooner. > > Anyway, that's my pitch. Would love to hear what people think about the idea. > > Best, > > Jason > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org > _______________________ Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com <http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> | My Free/Busy <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are marked as such.
