From b2d82d7e75c4ac0a97886c0ef9fd709879be6951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clinton Gormley Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:03:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Reorganised the highlight_query docs and added a version flag --- .../search/request/highlighting.asciidoc | 54 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/search/request/highlighting.asciidoc b/docs/reference/search/request/highlighting.asciidoc index 6a45e813269..03b4b78d36e 100644 --- a/docs/reference/search/request/highlighting.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/search/request/highlighting.asciidoc @@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ required. If the field in question is stored (has `store` set to `yes` in the mapping), it will be used, otherwise, the actual `_source` will be loaded and the relevant field will be extracted from it. -If `term_vector` information is provided by setting `term_vector` to -`with_positions_offsets` in the mapping then the fast vector +If `term_vector` information is provided by setting `term_vector` to +`with_positions_offsets` in the mapping then the fast vector highlighter will be used instead of the plain highlighter. The fast vector highlighter: * Is faster especially for large fields (> `1MB`) -* Can be customized with `boundary_chars`, `boundary_max_scan`, and +* Can be customized with `boundary_chars`, `boundary_max_scan`, and `fragment_offset` (see below) -* Requires setting `term_vector` to `with_positions_offsets` which +* Requires setting `term_vector` to `with_positions_offsets` which increases the size of the index Here is an example of setting the `content` field to allow for @@ -142,6 +142,30 @@ order by score: } -------------------------------------------------- +If the `number_of_fragments` value is set to 0 then no fragments are +produced, instead the whole content of the field is returned, and of +course it is highlighted. This can be very handy if short texts (like +document title or address) need to be highlighted but no fragmentation +is required. Note that `fragment_size` is ignored in this case. + +[source,js] +-------------------------------------------------- +{ + "query" : {...}, + "highlight" : { + "fields" : { + "_all" : {}, + "bio.title" : {"number_of_fragments" : 0} + } + } +} +-------------------------------------------------- + +When using `fast-vector-highlighter` one can use `fragment_offset` +parameter to control the margin to start highlighting from. + +==== Highlight query + It is also possible to highlight against a query other than the search query by setting `highlight_query`. This is especially useful if you use a rescore query because those are not taken into account by @@ -213,28 +237,6 @@ Note the score of text fragment in this case is calculated by Lucene highlighting framework. For implementation details you can check `ScoreOrderFragmentsBuilder.java` class. -If the `number_of_fragments` value is set to 0 then no fragments are -produced, instead the whole content of the field is returned, and of -course it is highlighted. This can be very handy if short texts (like -document title or address) need to be highlighted but no fragmentation -is required. Note that `fragment_size` is ignored in this case. - -[source,js] --------------------------------------------------- -{ - "query" : {...}, - "highlight" : { - "fields" : { - "_all" : {}, - "bio.title" : {"number_of_fragments" : 0} - } - } -} --------------------------------------------------- - -When using `fast-vector-highlighter` one can use `fragment_offset` -parameter to control the margin to start highlighting from. - [[highlighting-settings]] ==== Global Settings