X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/2448cf2a14b441f98c81913d25ef73ce620a3a48..a8b023e57eda06bac3e5641f85f718e1d3104fe9:/nominatim/api/search/query_analyzer_factory.py

diff --git a/nominatim/api/search/query_analyzer_factory.py b/nominatim/api/search/query_analyzer_factory.py
index 9804f3ce..bbc1eb6b 100644
--- a/nominatim/api/search/query_analyzer_factory.py
+++ b/nominatim/api/search/query_analyzer_factory.py
@@ -7,14 +7,16 @@
 """
 Factory for creating a query analyzer for the configured tokenizer.
 """
-from typing import List, cast
+from typing import List, cast, TYPE_CHECKING
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from pathlib import Path
 import importlib
 
 from nominatim.api.logging import log
 from nominatim.api.connection import SearchConnection
-from nominatim.api.search.query import Phrase, QueryStruct
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from nominatim.api.search.query import Phrase, QueryStruct
 
 class AbstractQueryAnalyzer(ABC):
     """ Class for analysing incomming queries.
@@ -23,11 +25,20 @@ class AbstractQueryAnalyzer(ABC):
     """
 
     @abstractmethod
-    async def analyze_query(self, phrases: List[Phrase]) -> QueryStruct:
+    async def analyze_query(self, phrases: List['Phrase']) -> 'QueryStruct':
         """ Analyze the given phrases and return the tokenized query.
         """
 
 
+    @abstractmethod
+    def normalize_text(self, text: str) -> str:
+        """ Bring the given text into a normalized form. That is the
+            standardized form search will work with. All information removed
+            at this stage is inevitably lost.
+        """
+
+
+
 async def make_query_analyzer(conn: SearchConnection) -> AbstractQueryAnalyzer:
     """ Create a query analyzer for the tokenizer used by the database.
     """