: to. For example, if I have a field in a document such as "username" which is
: a string that I'll do wild-card searches on, Solr will return document
: matches but no highlight data for that field. The end-goal is to know which

FYI: this is a known bug that results from a "safety" net in the 
SolrQueryParser...

        https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-195

...wildcards work in the trunk, and there is a workarround for 
prefix queries mentioned in the issue (you trick the queryparser into 
doing a wildcard query).

In general "fields" don't match queries, "documents" match queries ... 
highlighting can show you places "terms" and "phrases" appear in 
documents, but that doesn't garuntee that the "terms" highlighted are the 
reason the document matched the query.  the explain info is the only thing 
that can do that.




-Hoss

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