[SOLR-7216] JSON Request API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Yonik Seeley
• Created: 09/Mar/15 23:41
• Updated: 15/Apr/15 00:30
• Resolved: 23/Mar/15 14:38

Description

hhttp://yonik.com/solr-json-request-api/

The drawbacks to only having a query-parameter API include:

• Inherently un-structured, requiring unsightly parameters like f.facet_name.facet.range.start=5
• Inherently un-typed… everything is a string.
• More difficult to decipher large requests.
• Harder to programmatically create a request.
• Impossible to validate. Because of the lack of structure, we don’t know the set of valid parameter and thus can’t do good error checking.