I have tested the elastic search highlight field function and it was working fine . I used elastic search 2.4.4 and spring-data-elasticsearch-2.0.0.RELEASE
The sample code is in the below post
How to provide highlighting with Spring data elasticsearch
I have recently upgraded to elastic search to 5.5.0 and spring-data-elasticsearch-3.0.0.M4
when I test the same code , highlight does not happen
Below is the sample code
SearchQuery searchQuery = new NativeSearchQueryBuilder().withIndices("occindex") .withPageable(new PageRequest(0, mySpecification.getNoOfRecords())) .withQuery(QueryBuilders.multiMatchQuery( searchText.toLowerCase()).field("transformedTitle", 10.0f). minimumShouldMatch("50%").fuzziness(Fuzziness.ONE).prefixLength(3) .field("transformedDesription").type(MultiMatchQueryBuilder.Type.BEST_FIELDS)) .withHighlightFields( new HighlightBuilder.Field("transformedTitle").preTags("<span style='background-color: #FFFF00'>") .postTags("</span>"), new HighlightBuilder.Field("transformedDesription").fragmentSize(250).numOfFragments(3) .preTags("<span style='background-color: #FFFF00'>").postTags("</span>")) .build(); Page<MyResultRecord> sampleEntities = elasticsearchTemplate.queryForPage(searchQuery, MyResultRecord.class, new SearchResultMapper() { @Override public <T> AggregatedPage<T> mapResults(SearchResponse response, Class<T> clazz, Pageable pageable) { List<MyResultRecord> chunk = new ArrayList<MyResultRecord>(); for (SearchHit searchHit : response.getHits()) { if (response.getHits().getHits().length <= 0) { return null; } MyResultRecord myResultRecord = new MyResultRecord(); myResultRecord.setRecordId(searchHit.getId()); Map<String, Object> source = searchHit.getSource(); myResultRecord.setRisk((String) source.get("actualRisk")); String highlightedTitle = null; System.out.println( " Check the highlighted fileds " + searchHit.getHighlightFields()); System.out.println( " Is this null ?? " + searchHit.getHighlightFields().get("transformedTitle")); if (searchHit.getHighlightFields().get("transformedTitle") != null) highlightedTitle = searchHit.getHighlightFields().get("transformedTitle").fragments()[0] .toString(); else highlightedTitle = (String) source.get("transformedTitle"); myResultRecord.setHighlightedTitle(highlightedTitle); myResultRecord.setScore(searchHit.getScore()); chunk.add(myResultRecord); } if (chunk.size() > 0) { return new AggregatedPageImpl(chunk); } return null; } });
Is there any code change needed in order to highlight fields in elastic search 5.5.0 ?
When I print the query in the elastic search log , I find that only one highlight field is passed to Elastic Search
{ "from":0, "size":2, "query":{ "multi_match":{ "query":" My Query String", "fields":[ "transformedDesription^1.0", "transformedTitle^1.0" ], "type":"best_fields", "operator":"OR", "slop":0, "prefix_length":0, "max_expansions":50, "lenient":false, "zero_terms_query":"NONE", "boost":1.0 } }, "highlight":{ "fields":{ "transformedDesription":{ "pre_tags":[ "<bold>" ], "post_tags":[ "</bold>" ] } } } }
When I debugged , I observed that NativeSearchQuery has two highlighted fields , but the final query sent to Elastic Search has only request for one highlight field.