[LUCENE-1560] maxDocBytesToAnalyze should be required arg up front

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.9, 6.0
• Component/s: modules/highlighter
• Labels: dead
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 13/Mar/09 10:14
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:58

Description

We recently changed IndexWriter to require you to specify up-front
MaxFieldLength, on creation, so that you are aware of this dangerous
"loses stuff" setting. Too many developers had fallen into the trap
of "how come my search can't find this document...".

I think we should do the same with "maxDocBytesToAnalyze" with
highlighter?

Spinoff from this thread:

http://www.nabble.com/Lucene-Highlighting-and-Dynamic-Summaries-p22385887.html