Whitespace analyzer

The whitespace analyzer breaks text into terms whenever it encounters a whitespace character.

Example output

  POST _analyze { "analyzer": "whitespace", "text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone." }  

The above sentence would produce the following terms:

[ The, 2, QUICK, Brown-Foxes, jumped, over, the, lazy, dog's, bone. ]

Configuration

The whitespace analyzer is not configurable.

Definition

It consists of:

Tokenizer

Whitespace Tokenizer

If you need to customize the whitespace analyzer then you need to recreate it as a custom analyzer and modify it, usually by adding token filters. This would recreate the built-in whitespace analyzer and you can use it as a starting point for further customization:

  PUT /whitespace_example { "settings": { "analysis": { "analyzer": { "rebuilt_whitespace": { "tokenizer": "whitespace", "filter": [ ] } } } } }  

You’d add any token filters here.