Elasticsearch highlighting with wildcard does not work as expected
Well, I have managed to workaround this issue (following @Will comment)When specifying explicitly all fields you want highlighting on in the query itself and setting require_field_match" : trueThe highlight works as expected :)a little strange... but works. This way it has an issue highlighting fields that are not strings, so pay attention.
{ "from" : 0, "size" : 10, "query" : { "query_string" : { "query" : "some query", "fields" : [ "field1", "field2", ... ], "use_dis_max" : true } }, "highlight" : { "pre_tags" : [ "<span class=\"mark\">" ], "post_tags" : [ "</span>" ], "order" : "score", "encoder" : "html", "require_field_match" : true, "fields" : { "*" : { } } } }