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Order and Meaning in Returned Highlight Fields

TLDR SamHendley was unclear about the order of returned highlight fields. Jason clarified that fields with better matches show up earlier and that they will switch to the highlight object soon.

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SamHendley

07:58 PM

Is there any meaning in the order of highlight fields returned? They seem to change order from run to run (though that might be a change in 0.24.0.rcn34).

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Jason

08:23 PM

Do you mean the highlight key or the highlights (plural) key?

SamHendley

08:24 PM

Sorry the highlights returned with a search

Jason

08:24 PM

If it’s the latter, the fields that have a better match show up earlier in the highlights array

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Jason

08:24 PM

We’ll eventually be switching to the highlight object, since that’s the new structure that supported nested fields

SamHendley

08:25 PM

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