# Global highlighting settings not available in the Java API?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 27, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059 "2014-02-27T20:37:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@seallison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seallison)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059/1 "2014-02-27T20:37:36Z")
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](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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### Author:  [@brian\_yoder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brian_yoder)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059/2 "2014-02-27T20:56:20Z")
The link to the corresponding documentation for version 0.90.XX is here:
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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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### Author:  [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059/3 "2014-02-27T22:06:36Z")
Just a quick untested look at the code, but you might want to try:
SearchRequestBuilder.setHighlighterOptions(options);
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### Author:  [@seallison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seallison)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059/4 "2014-02-27T22:11:50Z")
Yeah I tried that too:
Map\ options = new HashMap\();
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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### Author:  [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059/5 "2014-02-27T22:41:43Z")
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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### Author:  [@seallison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seallison)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059/6 "2014-02-27T22:49:14Z")
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](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/5281)
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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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-highlighting-settings-not-available-in-the-java-api/16059/7 "2017-07-06T01:46:45Z")