Hi,
yes, it's (b). Right now, the CAS Editor only supports XMI and XCAS I far as I remember. No binary format is supported. I am thinking about some utils class for CAS serialization in uimaj-core. The read method should be somewhat generic (detecting the format), the write method takes the format as argument. This utils class can then be utilized in the CAS Editor (and also by others) to read and write the CAS files (with the format it was read). Best, Peter Am 15.07.2016 um 20:35 schrieb Marshall Schor: > Hi, > > I'm starting a separate thread on this :-) > > We currently have the following kinds of serialized formats > > a) <only used for client-server communication>: various "delta" formats - > these > require the original CAS be available. > > b) various forms that can be saved to disk and reloaded. > > ---------- > > For (b), there are: > > - XCAS, XMI (these are xml based) > > - binary (plain, compressed form 4, form 6) > > - some compound forms using Java object serialization and encoding type > systems > as well > > ---------- > > The binary forms are "self-identifying" for deserialization, so one piece of > deserializer code can "read" the format and pick the right deserializer. > > Is it correct to assume the request for enhancement from Peter for the CAS > Editor is to have that support the various forms (b)? If so, which ones does > it > not support at the moment? > > -Marshall >
