[LUCENE-4846] PostingsHighlighter should allow [expert] customization on how the field values are loaded

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.3, 6.0
• Component/s: modules/highlighter
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 17/Mar/13 22:40
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:41
• Resolved: 18/Mar/13 21:21

Description

Today it always loads from stored fields (searcher.doc), but it's sometimes
useful to customize this, eg if your app separately already loads stored
fields then it can avoid double-loading them. Or if your app has some other
place to pull the values from ...