How to provide highlighting with Spring data elasticsearch

Question

it seems that SpringData ES don\'t provide classes to fetch highlights returned by ES. Spring Data can return Lists of Objects but the highlights sections in the Json return

Answer 1

From the test cases in spring data elasticsearch I've found solution to this :

This can be helpful.

@Test
public void shouldReturnHighlightedFieldsForGivenQueryAndFields() {

    //given
    String documentId = randomNumeric(5);
    String actualMessage = "some test message";
    String highlightedMessage = "some test message";

    SampleEntity sampleEntity = SampleEntity.builder().id(documentId)
            .message(actualMessage)
            .version(System.currentTimeMillis()).build();

    IndexQuery indexQuery = getIndexQuery(sampleEntity);

    elasticsearchTemplate.index(indexQuery);
    elasticsearchTemplate.refresh(SampleEntity.class);

    SearchQuery searchQuery = new NativeSearchQueryBuilder()
            .withQuery(termQuery("message", "test"))
            .withHighlightFields(new HighlightBuilder.Field("message"))
            .build();

    Page sampleEntities = elasticsearchTemplate.queryForPage(searchQuery, SampleEntity.class, new SearchResultMapper() {
        @Override
        public  Page mapResults(SearchResponse response, Class clazz, Pageable pageable) {
            List chunk = new ArrayList();
            for (SearchHit searchHit : response.getHits()) {
                if (response.getHits().getHits().length <= 0) {
                    return null;
                }
                SampleEntity user = new SampleEntity();
                user.setId(searchHit.getId());
                user.setMessage((String) searchHit.getSource().get("message"));
                user.setHighlightedMessage(searchHit.getHighlightFields().get("message").fragments()[0].toString());
                chunk.add(user);
            }
            if (chunk.size() > 0) {
                return new PageImpl((List) chunk);
            }
            return null;
        }
    });

    assertThat(sampleEntities.getContent().get(0).getHighlightedMessage(), is(highlightedMessage));
}