Thank you Richard for your answers!
I did it like this:
String[] args = {"-jcasgeninput", "typeSystemDescriptor.xml",
"-jcasgenoutput", outputDir, "=jcasgenclasspath", "pathTojcasgenPackage" };
Jg.main(args);
The Jg class is implemented in the uima-tools.jar
Eirini
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho
<[email protected]>wrote:
> This is copied from the source code of the Maven JCasGen plugin. Check out
> the full sources here:
>
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/trunk/jcasgen-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/tools/jcasgen/maven/JCasGenMojo.java
>
> ---
>
> args.addAll(asList("-jcasgeninput", typeSystemFile.getAbsolutePath(),
> "-jcasgenoutput",
> this.outputDirectory.getAbsolutePath(), "=jcasgenclasspath",
> classpath));
>
> // run JCasGen to generate the Java sources
> Jg jCasGen = new Jg();
> try {
> jCasGen.main0(args.toArray(new String[args.size()]), null, new
> JCasGenProgressMonitor(),
> new JCasGenErrors());
> } catch (JCasGenException e) {
> throw new MojoExecutionException(e.getMessage(), e.getCause());
> }
>
> ---
>
> - Richard
>
>
> On 19.09.2013, at 13:16, Eirini Psallida <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Richard!
> >
> > I created the XML file, thanks a lot.
> > Can you explain me a bit more how can i pass this XML to the JCasGen
> > programmatically?
> >
> > Eirini
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <
> [email protected]
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> you can generate a type system descriptor in Java (there are Java
> objects
> >> representing the type system descriptor). Then you can serialize
> >> that to XML and pass it to the JCasGen programmatically, or possibly
> >> pass the descriptor object directly to JCasGen (but I think that is not
> >> supported right now).
> >>
> >> This is a brief example how to create a type system descriptor in code:
> >>
> >> // Create a new type system from scratch
> >> TypeSystemDescription tsd = new TypeSystemDescription_impl();
> >> TypeDescription tokenTypeDesc = tsd.addType("Token", "",
> >> CAS.TYPE_NAME_ANNOTATION);
> >> tokenTypeDesc.addFeature("length", "", CAS.TYPE_NAME_INTEGER);
> >>
> >> -- Richard
> >>
> >> On 19.09.2013, at 11:03, Eirini Psallida <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> i would like to define the Type System for my Annotator and then
> generate
> >>> the java classes without
> >>> using the XML descriptor and then the JCasGen button. I would like to
> do
> >> it
> >>> through java code only.
> >>> How can i do this? I suppose i need the uima-tools.jar where JCasGen is
> >>> implemented.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Eirini
> >>
> >>
>
>
