They are added right away.

-- Richard

On 21.07.2015, at 17:13, Thomas Ginter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you add those annotations to the CAS indexes right away or is that done as 
> part of the close() method also?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas Ginter
> 801-448-7676
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 16.07.2015, at 19:46, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> The usual way these kinds of things have been decided is to "guess" if the 
>>> more
>>> likely scenario is one of a user error, or a user intent.  Here, the user 
>>> seemed
>>> to intend this.  If this was supported, there might be other unintended
>>> consequences - such as setting a subject-of-analysis **after** some 
>>> Annotations
>>> were made.
>> 
>> Well, actually *that* is a case that should be considered supported.
>> 
>> E.g. uimaFIT comes with a JCasBuilder class that allows to incrementally
>> initialize a CAS, e.g:
>> 
>>   JCasBuilder jb = new JCasBuilder(jCas);
>>   jb.add("This sentence is not annotated. ");
>>   jb.add("But this sentences is annotated. ", Sentence.class);
>>   int begin = jb.getPosition();
>>   jb.add("And", Token.class);
>>   jb.add(" ");
>>   jb.add("here", Token.class);
>>   jb.add(" ");
>>   jb.add("every", Token.class);
>>   jb.add(" ");
>>   jb.add("token", Token.class);
>>   jb.add(" ");
>>   jb.add("is", Token.class);
>>   jb.add(".", Token.class);
>>   jb.add(begin, Sentence.class);
>>   jb.close();
>> 
>> The annotations are added directly to the CAS while the strings are
>> added to an internal StringBuilder which is only set as the CAS
>> document text when close() is called.
>> 
>> Very useful I might mention! I use the same technique in various readers.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -- Richard
> 

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