[SOLR-16393] Cosmetic improvements and migration to JAX-RS (alias, alias-prop CRUD APIs)

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.3
• Component/s: v2 API
• Labels: newdev
• Assignee: Jason Gerlowski
• Reporter: Jason Gerlowski
• Created: 02/Sep/22 10:57
• Updated: 21/Jul/23 20:40
• Resolved: 28/Apr/23 12:30

Description

As mentioned on SOLR-15781, the v2 API currently has an experimental designation, and the community has expressed an interest in using this period to update our v2 endpoints to be more REST-ful and consistent.  The current plan is to follow the specific changes laid out in this spreadsheet, though of course nothing there is set in stone and there are still warts to be worked out.

While we're touching the code for these endpoints, we should also convert them to JAX-RS framework definitions. (This was initially tracked as a separate effort - see SOLR-16370 - but the edit that were required ended up overlapping so significantly with the "cosmetic" improvements here that in practice it almost always makes sense to do the two together.)

This ticket plans to tackle making the changes required for Solr's alias and alias-prop CRUD APIs. These are described in detail in the spreadsheet linked above, but are summarized in the table below for convenience and easier tracking.

API Name	Original Form	Desired Form	Status	Volunteer
List Alias	GET /api/cluster/aliases	GET /api/aliases	Finished	Alex
Create Alias	POST /api/collections {"create-alias": {...}}	POST /api/aliases {...}	Finished	Jason
Delete Alias	POST /api/collections {"delete-alias": {...}}	DELETE /api/aliases/aliasName	Finished	Jason
Set Alias Property	POST /api/collections {"set-alias-property": {...}}	PUT /api/aliases/aliasName/properties/propName {"value": "someVal"}	Finished	Alex
Delete Alias Property	POST /api/collections {"set-alias-property": {"propName": ""}}	DELETE /api/aliases/aliasName/properties/propName	Finished	Alex

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SOLR-16374 Convert v2 "Alias" and "AliasProp" APIs to JAX-RS
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1332
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1452
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1459
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1571
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1590