[LUCENE-9431] UnifiedHighlighter: Make WEIGHT_MATCHES the default

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Component/s: modules/highlighter
• Labels: newdev
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: David Smiley
• Created: 15/Jul/20 18:16
• Updated: 28/Nov/24 10:30
• Resolved: 23/Oct/21 00:40

Description

This mode uses Lucene's modern mechanism of exposing information that previously required complicated highlighting machinery.  It's also likely to generally work better out-of-the-box and with custom queries.

Issue Links

• requires: LUCENE-8286 UnifiedHighlighter should support the new Weight.matches API for better match accuracy
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #362