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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-4299:
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Interesting... What this does, I think, is allow the type inferencing system
to pull the surrounding context's type info into this. So in the context:
{code}Iterator<FSIndex<FeatureStructure>> indexes =
aSrcCasView.getIndexRepository().getIndexes();{code} this pulls the info from
the left-hand side of the assignment over into the right side, so it now
"matches". Or something like that... I confess to some lack of complete
understanding of the subtleties of generics...
So, I'm guessing if the left side said <FSIndex<Annotation>> that would also
"work" but it would of course be incorrect because the index Repository
getIndexes() method really is returning indexes that might be defined over all
kinds of Types many of which might not be Annotation. .
I think the unknown-ness of this is better expressed by <? extends
FeatureStructure>. But I do agree it could be a backwards compatibility issue.
I guess I'm slightly in favor of keeping it as <? extends FeatureStructure>
unless it starts being a significant issue. Or maybe there's another kind of
update that would make things work.
> improve generics for UIMA indexes and iterators
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> Key: UIMA-4299
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-4299
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core Java Framework
> Affects Versions: 2.7.0SDK
> Reporter: Marshall Schor
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.7.1SDK
>
>
> When the JCas is being used, there are Java classes for UIMA types.
> Each index definition is associated with a top-most type in the type
> hierarchy.
> Indexes are used to create iterators of various kinds; some of these
> iterators are defined within classes which implement Iterable.
> Add generic mechanisms to the Indexes and iterators to support Iterables
> whose elements are JCas types.
> Update the APIs that get indexes over particular types to allow specifying
> those types by the type class, and use this for generic typing, so casts are
> not necessary for user code.
> Make the generics work also when JCas is not in use.
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