You do not necessarily need two requests; instead, you can override or modify the request handler you are using (StandardRequestHandler, DisMaxREquestHandler) to return the information. You'll have to process the Query to extract the terms (like HighlighingUtils does), then get the TermVector token offset data for each matching doc and look for the terms in the Query. I haven't worked with Term Vectors (a Lucene API), so I'm not sure exactly how to go about this.
Thanks Mike, So in essence I need to write a new RequestHandler plugin which takes the query string, tokenises it then perform a some kind of action against the index to return results which I should then be able to get the termVectors from? Would not the termVectors already be available from the normal search and we'd just be asking for the term vectors from that? Any advice for a perl/python programmer who is trying to baddly hack this in Java? Best Regards, Martin Owens
