Class DefaultPassageFormatter


  • public class DefaultPassageFormatter
    extends PassageFormatter
    Creates a formatted snippet from the top passages.

    The default implementation marks the query terms as bold, and places ellipses between unconnected passages.

    • Constructor Detail

      • DefaultPassageFormatter

        public DefaultPassageFormatter()
        Creates a new DefaultPassageFormatter with the default tags.
      • DefaultPassageFormatter

        public DefaultPassageFormatter​(String preTag,
                                       String postTag,
                                       String ellipsis,
                                       boolean escape)
        Creates a new DefaultPassageFormatter with custom tags.
        Parameters:
        preTag - text which should appear before a highlighted term.
        postTag - text which should appear after a highlighted term.
        ellipsis - text which should be used to connect two unconnected passages.
        escape - true if text should be html-escaped
    • Method Detail

      • format

        public String format​(Passage[] passages,
                             String content)
        Description copied from class: PassageFormatter
        Formats the top passages from content into a human-readable text snippet.
        Specified by:
        format in class PassageFormatter
        Parameters:
        passages - top-N passages for the field. Note these are sorted in the order that they appear in the document for convenience.
        content - content for the field.
        Returns:
        formatted highlight. Note that for the non-expert APIs in PostingsHighlighter that return String, the toString method on the Object returned by this method is used to compute the string.