Am 10.06.2012 um 19:50 schrieb Richard Eckart de Castilho:

> I guess another option should be to change CollectionReaderAdapter to create 
> any missing initial view for sofa-unaware readers. That would not have any 
> side other component type and it would solve the problem for my use-case as 
> well. The problem is, that doesn't work, because the 
> PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.classAnalysisComponentProcess() already tries to 
> access the mapped view and fails. Changing that to test if the 
> mAnalysisComponent is a sofa-unaware CollectionReaderAdapter and creating a 
> new view only in that case looks rather like a hack to me, although it would 
> probably resolve the situation. I didn't test that yet, but if you think it 
> reasonable, I can check it.

Actually, the exception triggered by 
PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.classAnalysisComponentProcess() when accessing the 
non-existing mapped CAS seems completely redundant, because if the analysis 
engine delegate is a sofa-unaware CasMultiplier or CollectionReader(Adapter) 
that doesn't actually use its input CAS, it doesn't matter at all a that point 
that the mapped view does not exist. It's enough if the mapped initial view is 
set up in any new CAS created for the CasMultiplier/CollectionReader.

So, there are many possible ways. I personally don't find to very attractive to 
change the CollectionReaderDescription because I think that has quite some 
overhead. Even if that was done, the problem would probably remain for mapped 
CasMultipliers. I like it that UIMA internally treats all components equally, 
so I would prefer doing something that this also works out well when sofa 
mappings are used on components that produce new CASes and potentially do not 
at all make used of the input CAS.

-- Richard

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