: > a SolrQueryResponse, no one has ever accused any of those response writers : > of not being flexible enough to generate a *different* type of response in : > those formats. : : You may be right, but actually quite a few issues have referenced even non : XMLWriters of similar issues. See:
I honeslty don't understand what you're getting at here, this list of issues is all over the map and almost none of them relate to the extensibility of any request handlers... : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1616 ... this was from someone who didn't notice json.nl=arrarr and felt like the default way of representing a NamedList in JSON was odd. they didn't disagree with the JSON structure, they just don't like the default. : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-358 ...this was an improvement issue to track adding the ruby response writer ... which idnd't exist before this. : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1555 ...this is a bug in how the term compontent adds the terms to the response ... it's completley orthoginal to the response output structure. : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-431 ...this is from one of my coworkers who had some really old, really hideously hackish plugins from before Solr was open sourced that was trying to find a way to work arround a big fixed in the xml escaping -- i could maybe see this as a "response writers need to be more flexible" type issue, except they knew from the start the start they were abusing a bug. : http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-912 ...this is an issue Kay opened to revamp NamedList to be more typesafe ... also has absolutely nothign to do with how flexible the output representation is. : Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure the effect is to make it crystal clear as : much as it is to make it "clearer". XMLWriter is totally ambiguous -- what : type of "XML" does it generate? I would argue "SOLR response XML", hence the : SorlXmlResponseWriter. eh ... agree to disagree i guess. it seems just as valid to say that "UpdateCommand" -- what type of data does it update? ... or that "RequestHandler" is ambigious because it can only handle "Solr" requests, so it should be title "SolrRequestHandler". we have enough ambiguity and confusion with some of our config file options and names that non-java users see ... the ones that only plugin writers see i'm less concerned with ... better to beef up the javadocs that deal with a bunch of deprecation headaches just to add "Solr" to the front of a class name. -Hoss
