Hi all! I'm trying to do some simple highlighting, but I cannot seem to figure out how to make it work.
I'm using my own QueryParser which generates custom made queries. I would like Solr to be able to highlight them. I've tried many options in the highlighter but cannot get any snippets to show. However, if I change the QueryParser to the default solr parser it works. There is certainly a place in the config or in the query parser where I can specify how Solr can highlight my custom queries? I checked a bit in the source code, and in WeightedSpanTermExtractor class, in the method extract(Query query, Map terms), there is a huge list of instanceof's that check which type of query we are attempting to match. Is that the only place where the conversion between query <-> highlighting happens? If so, its looks pretty hard coded and would not work with any other queries than the ones included in Lucene. I guess there must be a good reason for this, but is there any other way of making the highlighter work without having to hard code all the possible queries in a big if / instanceofs? If we could somehow reuse the code contained in each query to find possible matches, it would avoid having to recode the same logic elsewhere. But as I said, there must be a good reason for doing it the way its already coded. Any ideas on how to work this out with the existing code base would be greatly appreciated :) Daniel Shane
