Yes! It only needs to be done!
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Ahmet Arslan wrote: > Hi Upayavira, > > I was going to suggest SOLR-3479 to Edwin, I saw your old post. > > Regarding your suggestion, there is an existing ticket : > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3479 > > I think SOLR-7665 is also relevant to your question. > > Ahmet > > > > > On Sunday, June 23, 2013 9:54 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > I've just taken a peek at the src for DocTransformers. They get given a > TransformContext. That context contains the query and a few other bits > and pieces. > > If it contained the response, DocTransformers would be able to do output > restructuring. The best example is hit highlighting. If you did: > > &hl=on&hl.fl=name&fl=*,[highlight:name] > > you would no longer need to seek the highlighted strings in another part > of the output. > > The conceptual downside of this approach is that we might expect the > highlighting to be done inside the DocTransfomer not a search component, > i.e. not needing the hl=on&hl.fl=name bit. That is, this would be a > great change for existing Solr users, but might be confusing for new > Solr users. > > I did try to move the highlighting code itself into the DocTransformer, > but stalled at the point at which it needed to be CoreAware, as > DocTransformers aren't allowed to be. Without that, it isn't possible to > access the Highlighter components in the core's configuration. > > Thoughts? Is this a useful feature? > > Upayavira
