Walter - I'm curious what your thoughts are on the OpenSearch
standard as well. Do you think Solr should support that natively as
well?
I'm a proponent of the Atom Publishing Protocol as well, for the record.
Erik
On Oct 12, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
On 10/12/06 8:26 AM, "Chris Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I agree ... comments various people have made over the last few
weeks or
so have gotten me thinking that standardizing the way errors are
returned to the HTTP client (for both updates and selects) is one
of the
biggest "API problems" in SOlr right now.
This is a complicated issue. We sent zillions of messages about it
on the Atom Publishing Protocol list. The end result was to use
HTTP request methods and response codes and be religiously
correct about the HTTP behavior.
We should take a look at the APP spec to see what we can learn
from that. Atom got *lots* of review, all the way to Roy Fielding.
The current APP draft is here. This is in IETF Last Call, so it
is nearly finished.
http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draft-ietf-atompub-
protocol-11.html
One option would be to implement APP rather than designing something
new. When I was at HP, one of the design principles was "standard is
better than better." APP will not be an exact match to Solr, but
it is very well designed and it is probably worth the effort to
build on the vast amount of work and review that went into APP.
If you want to dig in further, the mailing list is here:
http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/index.html
If we have APP for indexing, results in Atom format would help a lot.
Google GData is a pretty good Atom search API.
wunder
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Walter Underwood
Search Guru, Netflix
