Hi Luca,

The prior test works with new commit however my original issue of not highlighting many fields at all remains.
I test it by switching from plain to postings highlighter and the difference is dramatic with my real mapping and data - very few fields are now highlighted with postings.

I am trying to reproduce it with a recreation but so far I could not.

to remind you of the progression of fixes to the highlighter

1. first version worked fine with simple tokens but not wildcards
2. with wildcard enhancement i had some results randomly not highlighted and the small recreation showed scrambled highlighting
3. with the latest fix lot more results (majority) does not get highlighted but i can't recreate it on small mapping/data set

Do you have any suggestions for recreation? Does highlighting with postings depends on search query at all?

here is a recreation with few mappings similar to my real ones https://gist.github.com/roytmana/7336502
but it works

any suggestions towards recreation of the issue would be very helpful

Alex

@roytmana i had an example of one not highlighting at all from your example yesterday. when searching for "photo*" or "photo" or "photography", " equipment" was highlighted, but "photography" or "photography equipment" wasn't highlighting.

also got different responses if i used query_string vs match vs match_phrase_prefix

sorry can't provide more details atm

this test works now with the latest 0.90 snapshot but I still am having issue of not highlighting at all which I could not reproduce with a recreate so far :-(

Hi @roytmana, thanks a lot for your feedback!

What you called "scrambled highlighting" has been solved :)

I wonder if you are seeing a regression or a problem that's always been there. Sounds weird that you say the difference is dramatic but you can't reproduce it. It might depend either on your queries or your analysis chain, would be great if you can open another issue with some examples of what doesn't work.

well it worked (except for the wildcards) in the very first drop I tested
(remember when I posted some performance stats) and then it had scrambled
highlighting with some results not highlighted at all and now it
practically highlight nothing

I will open a new issue based on my last comment
I will attach the sample recreation with analysis chain I use and a sample
query but it does not show the issue
I can post my real mapping and few real queries if it is of any help
hopefully it may give you some ideas and you could suggest steps for
troubleshooting/recreating
is there anything else I can provide?