typesense / typesense/typesense

[Feature request] multiple snippets from various parts of the document

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Description

We already discussed this in the slack channel but I'm creating this feature request in case others are interested as well.

Use case:
In a long document there are 10 occurrences of "keyword" and I'd like to display all 10 snippets. Right now typesense returns just one snippet (the best matched one) for each document.

It is possible to implement this on the client side (by splitting the long document into paragraphs/sentences) but it would be useful to have typesense support this functionality via a flag.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating the existing document-snippet and highlighting implementation, then determine how a flag should request multiple snippets and define done as returning all relevant snippets from the document.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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