[LUCENE-8401] Add PassageBuilder to help construct highlights using MatchesIterator

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: modules/highlighter
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Alan Woodward
• Reporter: Alan Woodward
• Created: 16/Jul/18 10:20
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:32

Description

Jim and I discussed a while back the idea of adding highlighter components, rather than a fully-fledged highlighter, which would allow users to build their own specialised highlighters.  To that end, I'd like to add a PassageBuilder class that uses the Matches API to break text up into passages containing hits.