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Jason Gerlowski commented on SOLR-17355:
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As the feature is undocumented, there's a bit of murkiness around our
backcompat obligations here. Is it worth retaining through 10.0, or might it
be safe to remove in (e.g.) 9.7 or 9.8
> Deprecate (or remove) special 'wt=json' support from filestore "get file" API
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> Key: SOLR-17355
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-17355
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: Package Manager, v2 API
> Reporter: Jason Gerlowski
> Priority: Minor
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> Our filestore has a "get file" API, which returns the contents of a filestore
> entry.
> In almost all cases, this API returns verbatim whatever bytes are associated
> with the entry in the filestore. But there's an exception: if "wt=json" is
> specified, the API will take the bytes stored in the filestore, attempt to
> string-ify them, and then package those into a JSON response (complete with
> 'responseHeader', etc.).
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> This hidden functionality is undocumented, error-prone (it doesn't support
> binary content, for instance), makes the response hard to clients to parse,
> and complicates code on the server side as well.
> We should consider deprecating/removing it if there's no compelling purpose
> I'm missing. Or alternatively: document, test, and harden the functionality
> (e.g. base64 encode binary content).
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