[SOLR-7214] JSON Facet API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.1
• Assignee: Yonik Seeley
• Reporter: Yonik Seeley
• Created: 09/Mar/15 22:45
• Updated: 04/Mar/16 23:30
• Resolved: 26/Mar/15 19:05

Description

Overview is here: http://yonik.com/json-facet-api/

The structured nature of nested sub-facets are more naturally expressed in a nested structure like JSON rather than the flat structure that normal query parameters provide.

Goals:

• First class JSON support
• Easier programmatic construction of complex nested facet commands
• Support a much more canonical response format that is easier for clients to parse
• First class analytics support
• Support a cleaner way to do distributed faceting
• Support better integration with other search features

Issue Links

• breaks: SOLR-7574 NullPointerException in RequestUtil.mergeJSON
• relates to: SOLR-8768 Wrong behaviour in json facets
• relates to: SOLR-7564 NPE using the JSON facet API