Hello Nocolas, This has been in the back of my mind for a time. Can you make a patch for it? I'd like to use it.
Thank you, Koji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I would like to propose a new property on copy fields that limit the number > of characters that are copied. > > > > The use case is the following: Among other documents, we index very big > documents (several Mo of text) and want to be able to use highlighting. > However, as soon as one or more big documents are included in the matches, > the response time is awful. The maxAnalyzedChars is not enough as the full > document is uploaded in memory before to do any processing and that alone > can be very long. > > > > For this kind of situations, we propose to use a dedicated copy field for > highlighting and to limit the number of characters that are copied. For > exemple: > > <copyField source="text" dest="highlight" maxSize="30000" /> > > > > This approach has also the advantage of limiting the index size for large > documents (the original text field does not need to be stored and to have > term vectors). However, the index is bigger for small documents... > > > > Of course, if the only terms that are matched by a query are after the > limit, no highlight is possible. > > > > What do you think of this feature? > > > > Best regards, > > Nicolas > >
