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Hai-Son Nguyen commented on UIMA-6110:
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An initial step in making an interface for GraphQL is a tool to digest a type
system descriptor and produce a schema for GraphQL.
1) An issue of complexity is that the GraphQL schema requires enumerating
inherited methods.
[https://graphql.org/learn/schema/]
2 ) Since all our type system types extend Annotation (extends AnnotationBase
extends Top extends FeaturesStructureImpl)
We may want to decide on how to specify how much of the inherited
methods/properties we should limit for the schema.
I think it can be straight-forward to read the type system and add the fields.
The accounting of fields that are "hiding" inherited fields need to be managed
during the process as a special case. The annotation viewer already specifies a
type system for use so the UI can likely be integrated with that existing tool.
> UIMA & GraphQL Tool
> -------------------
>
> Key: UIMA-6110
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6110
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Brainstorming
> Components: Tools
> Reporter: Hai-Son Nguyen
> Priority: Minor
>
> To gather ideas and discuss tasks related to creating a GraphQL tool to work
> with UIMA.
> Initiated by Marshall's email 7/8/2019
> "...
>
> Some time ago, we added JSON serialization to UIMA, with some complexities
> around enabling accurate representation of the complete complexities of
> interlinked UIMA features.
>
> It strikes me that users frequently are interested in much simpler kinds of
> things, and sometimes roll their own simple json serializers of some small
> part
> of the CAS.
>
> I'm wondering if we could figure out and implement some general kind of
> graphQL
> support, to enable users to easily spec-out and retrieve what they wanted, and
> whether or not the user community would find that of interest?
>
> -Marshall"
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