I got the answer to my question. The field needs to be "stored" (or "termVector" enabled) for highlighting to work properly.
Cheers Avlesh On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Avlesh Singh <avl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am new to the whole highlighting API and have a few basic questions: > I have a "text" type field defined as underneath: > <fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> > <analyzer type="index"> > <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> > <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" > ignoreCase="true" expand="false"/> > <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" > words="stopwords.txt"/> > <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" > generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" > catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/> > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> > <filter class="solr.EnglishPorterFilterFactory" > protected="protwords.txt"/> > <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> > </analyzer> > <analyzer type="query"> > <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> > <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" > ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> > <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" > words="stopwords.txt"/> > <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" > generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" > catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/> > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> > <filter class="solr.EnglishPorterFilterFactory" > protected="protwords.txt"/> > <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> > </analyzer> > </fieldType> > > And the schema field is associated as follows: > <field name="text_entity_name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false"/> > > My query, q=text_entity_name:(foo bar)&hl=true&hl.fl=text_entity_name > work fine for the search part but not for highlighting. The highlight named > list is empty for each document returned back. > > I have a unique key defined. What am I missing? Do I need to store term > vectors for highlighting to work properly? > > Cheers > Avlesh >
