Remove unnecessary assert statement, Fix regex_replace docstring and simplify regex_r...

diff --git a/docs/customize/Tokenizers.md b/docs/customize/Tokenizers.md
index 2430be7efdb69a033f1ac8d1fa7104a7aab1206c..23db34c92bae4d179ea9774effc00d5506c0d7a3 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/customize/Tokenizers.md
+++ b/docs/customize/Tokenizers.md
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ Here is an example configuration file:
 
 ``` yaml
 query-preprocessing:
+    - step: split_japanese_phrases
     - step: regex_replace
-    replacements:
+      replacements:
         - pattern: https?://[^\s]* # Filter URLs starting with http or https
           replace: ''
     - step: normalize
@@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ The following is a list of preprocessors that are shipped with Nominatim.
         heading_level: 6
         docstring_section_style: spacy
 
+##### regex-replace
+
 ::: nominatim_api.query_preprocessing.regex_replace
     options:
         members: False

diff --git a/src/nominatim_api/query_preprocessing/regex_replace.py b/src/nominatim_api/query_preprocessing/regex_replace.py
index b711d54b7f6c0d823c73493c8d3dd6ad9332e4a0..b3a02495eeb2c836ef5936f59fff9bc96f1757c9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/nominatim_api/query_preprocessing/regex_replace.py
+++ b/src/nominatim_api/query_preprocessing/regex_replace.py
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2025 by the Nominatim developer community.
 # For a full list of authors see the git log.
 """
-This file replaces values based on pre-defined regex rules:
+This preprocessor replaces values in a given input based on pre-defined regex rules.
+
+Arguments:
+    pattern: Regex pattern to be applied on the input
+    replace: The string that it is to be replaced with
 """
 from typing import List
 import re
@@ -16,8 +20,10 @@ from ..search.query import Phrase
 
 
 class _GenericPreprocessing:
+    """Perform replacements to input phrases using custom regex patterns."""
 
     def __init__(self, config: QueryConfig) -> None:
+        """Initialise the _GenericPreprocessing class with patterns from the ICU config file."""
         self.config = config
 
         match_patterns = self.config.get('replacements', 'Key not found')
@@ -26,22 +32,21 @@ class _GenericPreprocessing:
             ]
 
     def split_phrase(self, phrase: Phrase) -> Phrase:
-        """
-        This function performs replacements on the given text using regex patterns.
-        """
+        """This function performs replacements on the given text using regex patterns."""
         for item in self.compiled_patterns:
             phrase.text = item[0].sub(item[1], phrase.text)
 
         return phrase
 
     def __call__(self, phrases: List[Phrase]) -> List[Phrase]:
-        """Apply regex replacements to the given addresses.
+        """
+        Return the final Phrase list.
+        Returns an empty list if there is nothing left after split_phrase.
         """
         result = [p for p in map(self.split_phrase, phrases) if p.text.strip()]
-        return result if result else []
+        return result
 
 
 def create(config: QueryConfig) -> QueryProcessingFunc:
-    """ Create a function for generic preprocessing.
-    """
+    """ Create a function for generic preprocessing."""
     return _GenericPreprocessing(config)

diff --git a/test/python/api/query_processing/test_regex_replace.py b/test/python/api/query_processing/test_regex_replace.py
index 288ac23e0e3cc373b9456fe1f58cd5a104c52a22..ef759ba142751d4a5e0439e753a49268de493f8d 100644 (file)
--- a/test/python/api/query_processing/test_regex_replace.py
+++ b/test/python/api/query_processing/test_regex_replace.py
@@ -46,6 +46,4 @@ def test_split_phrases(inp, outp):
     query = [qmod.Phrase(qmod.PHRASE_ANY, text) for text in inp]
 
     out = run_preprocessor_on(query)
-    expected_out = [qmod.Phrase(qmod.PHRASE_ANY, text) for text in outp]
-
-    assert out == expected_out, f"Expected {expected_out}, but got {out}"
+    assert out == [qmod.Phrase(qmod.PHRASE_ANY, text) for text in outp]