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-### The sanitation function
+### The main filter function of the sanitizer
-The sanitation function receives a single object of type `ProcessInfo`
+The filter function receives a single object of type `ProcessInfo`
which has with three members:
* `place`: read-only information about the place being processed.
remove entries, change information within a single entry (for example by
adding extra attributes) or completely replace the list with a different one.
+#### PlaceInfo - information about the place
+
+::: nominatim.data.place_info.PlaceInfo
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+#### PlaceName - extended naming information
+
+::: nominatim.data.place_name.PlaceName
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+
### Example: Filter for US street prefixes
The following sanitizer removes the directional prefixes from street names
The filter function first checks if the object is interesting for the
sanitizer. Namely it checks if the place is in the US (through `country_code`)
and it the place is a street (a `rank_address` of 26 or 27). If the
-conditions are met, then it goes through all available names and replaces
-any removes any leading direction prefix using a simple regular expression.
+conditions are met, then it goes through all available names and
+removes any leading directional prefix using a simple regular expression.
Save the source code in a file in your project directory, for example as
`us_streets.py`. Then you can use the sanitizer in your `icu_tokenizer.yaml`:
-```
+``` yaml
...
sanitizers:
- step: us_streets.py
...
```
-For more sanitizer examples, have a look at the sanitizers provided by Nominatim.
-They can be found in the directory `nominatim/tokenizer/sanitizers`.
-
!!! warning
This example is just a simplified show case on how to create a sanitizer.
It is not really read for real-world use: while the sanitizer would
correcly transform `West 5th Street` into `5th Street`. it would also
shorten a simple `North Street` to `Street`.
-#### PlaceInfo - information about the place
-
-::: nominatim.data.place_info.PlaceInfo
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-
-#### PlaceName - extended naming information
+For more sanitizer examples, have a look at the sanitizers provided by Nominatim.
+They can be found in the directory
+[`nominatim/tokenizer/sanitizers`](https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/tree/master/nominatim/tokenizer/sanitizers).
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## Custom token analysis module
-Setup of a token analyser is split into two parts: configuration and
-analyser factory. A token analysis module must therefore implement two
-functions:
-
::: nominatim.tokenizer.token_analysis.base.AnalysisModule
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