Hello there, I'm trying to highlight searched keyword in matched document with some custom works. Therefore, I need to know position (or offset) of that keyword in document. However, I found no documentation showing clearly how to do that. I know that when set "index_options" to "offsets" or "term_…

You can supply custom markup tags e.g.instead of <em> you could have <somethingMyAppUnderstands> but this won't return the offsets. I expect the most likely solution would be to implement a custom highlighter plugin (see example ) because these are given the resources you need to get hold of the q…

Fetching position of keyword in matched document

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hugo53 (Minh Hoang, Nguyen) July 25, 2017, 10:23am 5

Thank Mark for mentioning the plugin. I'm going to try it. Btw, I found this issue https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/5736, still open for more than 3 years, hope next releases will implement this helpful feature.

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Fetching position of keyword in matched document

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