is there a way to customize snippeting? Like show ...
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bnfd
08/24/2021, 6:42 PMis there a way to customize snippeting? Like show 1 line before and 1 line after the match, total 3 lines. Or in terms of words instead of lines
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Jason Bosco
08/24/2021, 7:04 PMNot at the moment. There's
snippet_thresholdhighlight_full_fieldsJason Bosco
08/24/2021, 7:04 PMCould you open a github issue for this?
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bnfd
08/24/2021, 7:06 PMyes
bnfd
08/24/2021, 7:23 PM@Jason Bosco Something relevant to this, I opened an issue regarding multiple snippets, maybe I misunderstood your reply but wouldn't the highlights helper just show the whole document with all highlights applied? the use case is that in a long document (let's say 20 pages) there are 10 occurrences of "foo" so I'd like to show 10 snippets for document1 instead of the whole document. Is this possible?
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Jason Bosco
08/24/2021, 7:27 PMwouldn't the highlights helper just show the whole document with all highlights applied?That's correct.
long document (let's say 20 pages) there are 10 occurrences of "foo" so I'd like to show 10 snippets for document1 instead of the whole document. Is this possible?I guess I misunderstood your original ask. This is not possible at the moment. But for long documents, to keep search relevancy and speed good, I'd recommend breaking them up into say one paragraph per record. That will also solve what you're looking to do indirectly, because then you can show 10 different snippets, 1 snippet from each document (paragraph)
Jason Bosco
08/24/2021, 7:29 PMThis is good reading material from Algolia on the topic of indexing long documents: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/sending-and-managing-data/prepare-your-data/how-to/indexing-long-documents/
The different in Typesense is that there is no limit to number of characters per document, but Algolia enforces a hard limit of 1K per document. So with Typesense we let you make the call on how large a document should be
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bnfd
08/24/2021, 7:34 PMI was between breaking it up or implementing it on the frontend. The problem is with some documents there are no paragraphs so it's not straightforward how to break it into parts.