CODEWITHSUNDEEP
elasticsearch
Ievgen
Ievgen

Reputation: 8086

Is it possible to get response with highlighted "_source" instead of "highlight" collection?

It would be nice in some cases (I have fixed amount of fields to display on search result and to create logic that would replace one field from "highlight" collection and the second one leave original is somehow uncomfortable). Is it possible? 

"hits": [
     {
        "_index": "myindex",
        "_type": "Company",
        "_id": "da8b8f36-3454-4120-9194-e5355819bff4",
        "_score": 1.214946,
        "_source": {
           "id": "1",
           "name": "The <em>Company</em>"
     }

Thanks in advance?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1505

Answers (1)

javanna
javanna

Reputation: 60225

It is not possible, since highlighting is a feature available with the search api but doesn't replace your search results.

You need to get the snippets from the highlighted results, and fall back to the _source if there are no snippets available for the fields you are interested in. The recently introduced no_match_size parameter might be useful to you though, as it allows to include in the highlighted results the first part of a field if there was nothing to highlight, so that the fallback is effectively done by elasticsearch itself internally.

Upvotes: 1

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