[jira] [Created] (LUCENE-9556) UnifiedHighlighter: distinguish no field from no passages in field

["David Smiley (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

David Smiley created LUCENE-9556:
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             Summary: UnifiedHighlighter: distinguish no field from no passages in field
                 Key: LUCENE-9556
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9556
             Project: Lucene - Core
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: modules/highlighter
            Reporter: David Smiley


The UnifiedHighlighter does not distinguish between highlighting a field that is absent on a document, and highlighting a field that is present but no passages were found (can happen for a variety of reasons) -- both cases produce null.  While not a huge deal in general, it's an annoyance.  It can be useful for the user/client to detect the content was present but not highlightable so that it might take some default action, like returning the whole field value (possibly to process in some way) or highlighting some other field.



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