Does hl.method=unified help any?
Perhaps you need to set hl.fl? or hl.requireFieldMatch=false? (although it
should default to false already)
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 6:52 PM Vikram Oberoi <vobe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just wanted to close the loop here.
>
> I'm pretty sure this has something to do with the default _text_ "catchall"
> field being a slightly differently type ('text_general') from all my
> textual fields ('text_en'). A few things I tried support that hypothesis:
>
> - Specifying fields for terms correctly yields highlights consistently
> (e.g. "hello" doesn't work but "subject:hello" always does).
> - Creating a different catchall field with same type as all my textual
> fields ('text_en') and making that the default field yields highlighting
> results that work properly and consistently.
> - Finally -- I need to use a friendlier parser anyway. Using edismax for
> all my queries -- and eliminating my catchall field -- yields highlighting
> results properly and consistently.
>
> I've got this working, but I'm curious to know if this is what's happening
> more around precisely why. If anyone more knowledgable has thoughts or
> pointers to writing on how highlighting works internally, I'd really
> appreciate it!
>
> Cheers,
> Vikram
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Vikram Oberoi <vobe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm seeing inconsistent highlighting behavior using a default, fresh Solr
> > 6.6 install and it's unclear to me why or how to go about debugging it.
> >
> > Hit highlights either show entirely correct highlights or none at all
> when
> > there should be highlights.
> >
> > - Some queries show highlights out of the box, some do not.
> > - e.g. "hello" yields no highlights, but "goodbye" correctly yields
> > highlights
> > - Some queries that do not show highlights suddenly work when
> > specifying fields
> > - e.g. "subject:hello" yields highlights, but "hello" does not
> > - When queries that yield highlights and queries that do not are
> > combined, only those that work are highlighted.
> > - e.g. "hello goodbye" yields highlights correctly for "goodbye",
> > but not for "hello"
> >
> > I've thrown specific details and examples in a Gist here:
> >
> > Full Gist: https://gist.github.com/voberoi/a7a8a679390fc4f27422e7
> > 0600cfb338
> >
> > - Problem description:
> > - https://gist.github.com/voberoi/a7a8a679390fc4f27422e70600cf
> > b338#file-problem-details-md
> > - Solr install, my schema, solrconfig details:
> > - https://gist.github.com/voberoi/a7a8a679390fc4f27422e70600cf
> > b338#file-solr-details-md
> >
> > Does anyone here have any hypotheses for why this might be happening?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Vikram
> >
>
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