Highlighting question

[pulse00]

When adding highlighting to a Search, the whole field which has a match is highlighted, instead of the substring of the field which mached the search term:

firstQ = PrefixQuery(UserIndex.first_name, term)
lastQ = PrefixQuery(UserIndex.last_name, term)

q = BoolQuery(should=[firstQ, lastQ])

search = Search(q)
search.add_highlight(UserIndex.first_name)

results = conn.search(search, indices = UserIndex.index_name)

So for the search term John a field containing Johnson will be highlighted <em>Johnson</em> instead of <em>John</em>son

Is it the Prefixquery that is causing problems in conjunction with highlighting?

[aparo]

yes it'is.

Highlight works at term level. PrefixQuery match "john*" terms and highlights them.