[LUCENE-8535] Should we drop support for highlighting block-join queries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 8.0
• Fix Version/s: 8.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Simon Willnauer
• Created: 17/Oct/18 17:07
• Updated: 14/Mar/19 13:06
• Resolved: 18/Oct/18 12:54

Description

This is a spin-off from LUCENE-6572. We currently depend on the block-join module which is due to the fact that we try to highlight the queries wrapped by the block join queries. The current discussion on LUCENE-6572 mentioned that this doesn't make much sense from an highlighting perspecitve and if we should drop support for it. Lucene 8.0 would be a good time to do so.

Thoughts?

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #480