Hi all,
Tests are going very well with sorl. I'm working for an academic
project, with not a lot of users, but with high demands, this will
explain the background of my question. For linguistic activities,
searching is a goal by itself, retrieving a document may be second.
That's why it's common to serve thousands of "highlighted snippets" from
results (in solr terms), like a "concordancer".
In such cases, it seems memory expensive to prepare really big snippets
lists from StandardRequestHandler. I'm beginning to make it work from a
ResponseWriter (thanks for all needed code already in
HighlightingUtils), so that snippets are directly written to the
response, without storing.
Before working too much on this code, is it good practice ? Did I miss
an important reason ? I understand the choice of StandardRequestHandler
for a normal usage of a search engine (paged results), to avoid code
replication for each ResponseWriter (XML, Json...). Am I wrong ?
If solr/lucene gurus have time to listen, I will also need some infos
about highlighter, for another post.
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Frédéric Glorieux
École nationale des chartes
direction des nouvelles technologies et de l'informatique
