[LUCENE-7544] UnifiedHighlighter should allow extension for custom query types

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.4
• Component/s: modules/highlighter
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: Michael Braun
• Created: 07/Nov/16 20:23
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:06
• Resolved: 08/Nov/16 21:15

Description

In our use case, we have custom query types (both SpanQuery and non-SpanQuery) which are not provided by Lucene. UnifiedHighlighter needs extension points to handle some custom query types in order for highlighting to be accurate. This issue represents adding two extension point methods to support custom query types.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #111