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 >
