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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-4685:
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Hi, in designing APIs for others to use, I try to imagine if it is more likely
a "normal" operation (to pass a null sometimes) or that is more likely a
mistake, which the user would appreciate knowing about.
In this case, I guessed (true, it's a guess... maybe wrong) that it would be
more useful to users who explicitly wrote this call with a type system
parameter, to know it was null, than to have the other default functionality.
I don't feel strongly one way or another so if you feel it's better the other
way, I'm willing to change it.
> Add Common Load/Save APIs, including type system and index defs, for various
> CAS formats
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> Key: UIMA-4685
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-4685
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: CasEditor, Core Java Framework
> Affects Versions: 2.8.1SDK
> Reporter: Peter Klügl
> Assignee: Marshall Schor
> Fix For: 2.9.0SDK
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> Attachments: BinaryCasIOUtils.java, caseditor.csv,
> caseditor_bincas.csv
>
>
> Create a new CasIOUtils class having common load and save APIs, with optional
> saving of type system and index definitions, in all the various CAS
> serialization formats (except JSON). Implement heuristic discovery for
> deserialization to support automatic selection of the right kind of
> deserializer. Update the headers for binary to support indicating they have
> the type system included (not used yet). Update the SerialFormat to support
> this. Update the CasEditor and other components to use this new API.
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