I have a few custom SearchComponents that manipulate some data that is being pulled out of the index in the finishStage. This approach has been working well until I went to a single shard collection at which point the components stopped functioning. After a bit of debugging I found the HttpShardHandler decided to short circuit the request (unless I specify a req param of shortCircuit=false) at which point the finishStage is bypassed. Was the bypassing of the finishStage intentional for short circuited requests? Should I be doing this data manipulation in the process stage instead? If you all believe this is a bug I would be happy to write up a ticket and take a crack at a fix. Additionally, it would be great to write some javadocs for the overridable SearchComponent methods so those who create custom components in the future won't be surprised at the behaviour.
Thanks, -Steve
