Global highlighting settings not available in the Java API?

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1

I'm trying to set the global highlighting settings through the Java API for
"fragment_size" and "number_of_fragments" as documented here:

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-highlighting.html#highlighting-settings

I don't see anything in SearchRequestBuilder that lets me configure those
settings. I'm working around this by setting them for each field using the
method:

searchRequestBuilder.addHighlightedField(name, fragmentSize,
numberOfFragments)

How can I configure these two settings globally for the highlighter? If it
matters, I'm using 0.90.11.

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The link to the corresponding documentation for version 0.90.XX is here:

I was thinking that perhaps 0.90 did not include them, but they are also
listed in that version documentation also.

Since I haven't yet used highlighting, I will lurk on this thread and may
learn something!

Brian

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Just a quick untested look at the code, but you might want to try:

SearchRequestBuilder.setHighlighterOptions(options);

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4

Yeah I tried that too:

Map<String, Object> options = new HashMap<String, Object>();
options.put("fragment_size", 0);
options.put("number_of_fragments", 0);
searchRequestBuilder.setHighlighterOptions(options);

but the query ends up looking like this:

"highlight" : {
"options" : {
"number_of_fragments" : 0,
"fragment_size" : 0
},...

On Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:06:36 PM UTC-5, Binh Ly wrote:

Just a quick untested look at the code, but you might want to try:

SearchRequestBuilder.setHighlighterOptions(options);

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5

I took a closer look and indeed you are correct, the REST API actually has
some logic in there to trickle it down to the fields level (which I didn't
expect). Can you please open a ticket?

In the meantime, I'd probably just fall back to .setSource() if absolutely
needed. Thanks!

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Thanks for your confirmation! I've opened a
ticket: Java API does not have a way to set global highlighting settings · Issue #5281 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub

On Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:41:43 PM UTC-5, Binh Ly wrote:

I took a closer look and indeed you are correct, the REST API actually has
some logic in there to trickle it down to the fields level (which I didn't
expect). Can you please open a ticket?

In the meantime, I'd probably just fall back to .setSource() if absolutely
needed. Thanks!

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