[5.0] Smart Search to show Contact images

[sakiss]

Summary of Changes

This is a follow up to #35612.
Smart Search now shows images only for the articles in the results .

With this PR images for the contacts (com_contact) can be shown as well.

Testing Instructions

1. You need to have some contacts created (under Components > Contacts > Contacts).
   Your contacts need to have images.

2. Go to the Smart Search and press the "Index" button.

3. In the menu item for the Smart Search enable the setting Result Image .

4. Now in the front-end use the Smart Search (menu item or module) and search for one of your contacts.

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

No image in the contact results.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Contact images.

Link to documentations

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• No documentation changes for docs.joomla.org needed
• No documentation changes for manual.joomla.org needed

[HLeithner]

pretty sure this have to go into 5.0

[sakiss]

@HLeithner it's an already shipped feature since 4.1. Just a continuation of it.

[HLeithner]

It's not a bugfix so it's a new feature and new features go into the next minor version, since 4.4 is only a preparation release for 5.0 it has to go directly to 5.0.

We try to be more strict with changing code in bugfix releases to have more stable releases with no/less regressions.

[sakiss]

How it's a new feature?
The images for the finder results were shipped back in J4.1 (see: #35612)
But were not complete.

I leave that to the RL decision

[obuisard]

Thank you very much for the PR Sakis @sakiss.
We have discussed the PR in our latest maintenance meeting and consider this as an improvement that can only be included into a 'feature' release. I will rebase the PR to 5.0.

[Quy]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 27b3efd

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[HLeithner]

thanks