[LUCENE-6061] Add Support for something different than Strings in Highlighting (FastVectorHighlighter)

• Type: Wish
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 6.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.10.2, 5.0, 6.0
• Component/s: core/search, modules/highlighter
• Labels: FastVectorHighlighter Highlighter Highlighting
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Braun
• Created: 13/Nov/14 20:37
• Updated: Yesterday 21:12

Description

In my application I need Highlighting and I stumbled upon the really neat FastVectorHighlighter. One problem appeared though. It lacks a way to render the Highlights into something different than Strings, so I rearranged some of the code to support that:

https://github.com/Hotware/Lucene-Extension/blob/master/src/main/java/com/github/hotware/lucene/extension/highlight/FVHighlighterUtil.java

Is there a specific reason to only support String[] as a return type? If not, I would be happy to write a new class that supports rendering into a generic Type and rewire that into the existing class (or just do it as an addition and leave the current class be).