V2 shouldn't be overloaded then *that* is a problem.  Can we just call the
new JAX-RS stuff V3 and then voila, we call this V3 faceting API?

~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley


On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:42 AM Houston Putman <hous...@apache.org> wrote:

> Thanks for bringing this up!
>
> I agree the name of the API is bad. The thing is it's not only faceting,
> it's also stats/analytics.
>
> Maybe the "aggregation API"? but I'm not sure that's any better...
>
> I do think "v2" is an already overloaded term that comes with a lot of
> baggage, so I would personally vote we steer in a different direction.
>
> - Houston
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 9:42 AM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > Although it's been nagging me for a while, today it hit me that the "JSON
> > request API" has a terrible name.
> >
> > I hope to start a discussion on re-branding it and somehow pitch it as
> the
> > (not-so-new) "V2" search / facet API. Good timing as part of the other V2
> > efforts.
> > That may in turn lead to increased usage and take the role as the
> > "standard" search API instead of the "alternative".
> >
> > Of course I know that what we normally mean as "V2" API is the /api/ URL,
> > not the syntax of the payload, i.e. you can do both old-style and
> > JSON-style  queries on both V1 adn V2 search endpoint. So I'm not sold on
> > "V2" being the perfect name here. But from a pure branding perspective,
> > signaling that it is the "new" way, perhaps it can fly?
> >
> > See JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-16663 for some
> > initial thougts. Please keep the broader discussion here, and more
> > implementation related input in JIRA.
> >
> > Jan
>

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