@curquiza I'll do, please assign it to me.

Hello @spinales, you are assigned! 🙂

Hello @curquiza I'm beginner with rust, can you give a hand, what function process the JSON files?

@MarinPostma or @irevoire can maybe give you some clarification about the issue 🙂

Hello @spinales, I think all your work will be in the meilisearch-lib/src/index/search.rs file.

You should notice that the big perform_search function is executed for every search.
And that at the end of a search it's calling the format_fields on every returned document.
And in the end, it's in the format_value that decide how to highlight each fields.
And I'll let you guess what you need to do from here 👍

I think this should suffice but I may be wrong, do not hesitate to ask more questions if it doesn't work 😄

@irevoire Hi, how can test the changes i did?
i did a change, i want to do test, how can generate JSON file with field _formatted, how showed the first comment on this issue?

Hi @spinales, when you search for a specific document you can specify the attributesToHighlight.

Hello @spinales, I will remove the assignation since we did not get any PR from you, we can understand this is not an easy PR and you may not have the time to do it 🙂

In general, and from now, we prefer not assigning people to our issues because sometimes people ask to be assigned and never come back, which discourages the other volunteers contributors to open a PR to fix this issue.
We will accept and merge the first PR that fixes correctly and well implements the issue following our contributing guidelines.

thanks again for your involvement and feel free to still open a PR if you have the time 🙂

@curquiza Sorry, I think this issue is easy to resolve, but I'm a beginner with Rust, I think that's the first problem. But the function that is used to search on string can be reused, as the number is a string in the end, that's a possible solution.

Hi @curquiza and @spinales

I was following this thread a bit and worked out a solution on my own, since I'm also new to Rust and this issue is a nice learning exercise.

I submitted my attempt in this PR: #1813

I'm open to suggestions and improvements and would love to hear your feedback.

Hello!

@spinales, to be honest MeiliSearch is not an easy project to contribute. I recommend you watching the opening PRs and review them if you want to learn more. I think it's a good start to learn 😄

@Jhnbrn90, thank you! One of the core team developer will review it as soon as possible