Highlighting offers the ability to highlight search terms in results, in order to show where matches occur. It helps to improve the user experience by allowing a user to see how matching documents are found. This is especially useful when displaying a text result that contains several lines of text.

The highlighting feature starts with the highlighter class. It can be configured with a formatter and an encoder to render the results. Then, we retrieve a TokenStream from the matching Field and pass it on to the Highlighter to render highlighting results.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
    <artifactId>lucene-highlighter</artifactId>
    <version>${lucene.version}</version>
</dependency>

StandardAnalyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer();
Directory directory = new RAMDirectory();
IndexWriterConfig config...