Elasticsearch: Highlighting hits from within attachment

Question

I'm having trouble getting the highlighting to work with Elasticsearch (and Tire) in a Rails app. I can successfully index PDF attachments and query them but I cannot get the highlighting to work. Not that familiar with ES so not sure where to look to troubleshoot. Will start with mappings and a curl query but feel free to ask for more info. ``` class Article < ActiveRecord::Base include Tire::Model::Search include Tire::Model::Callbacks attr_accessible :title, :content, :published_on, :filename mapping do indexes :id, :type =>'integer' indexes :title indexes :content indexes :published_on, :type => 'date' indexes :attachment, :type => 'attachment', :fields => { :name => { :store => 'yes' }, :content => { :store => 'yes' }, :title => { :store => 'yes' }, :file => { :term_vector => 'with_positions_offsets', :store => 'yes' }, :date => { :store => 'yes' } } end def to_indexed_json to_json(:methods => [:attachment]) end def attachment if filename.present? path_to_pdf = "/Volumes/Calvin/s…

Accepted Answer

I figured it out! Finally...

problem was with my mapping syntax in Article class. Needed to rename ":file" to ":attachment".

```
  tire.mapping do
    indexes :id, :type =>'integer'
    indexes :title
    indexes :content
    indexes :published_on, :type => 'date'
    indexes :attachment, :type => 'attachment', #:null_value => 'missing_file',
                            :fields => {
                            :name       => { :store => 'yes' },  # exists?!?
                            :content    => { :store => 'yes' },
                            :title      => { :store => 'yes' },
  # WRONG! see next line => :file       => { :term_vector => 'with_positions_offsets', :store => 'yes' },
                            :attachment => { :term_vector => 'with_positions_offsets', :store => 'yes' },
                            :date       => { :store => 'yes' }
                          }
```

Elasticsearch: Highlighting hits from within attachment

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