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Richard Eckart de Castilho commented on UIMA-6300:
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The {{AnnotationEngineDescription_impl}} has a few fields which are "internal
hidden state" - i.e. they are not exposed as metadata attributes. This cause
the cloning process to create only shallow clones of them. As a result, the
clone and the original {{AnnotationEngineDescription_impl}} have a shared
inner state. From my perspective, this is clearly something that should not
happen. The clone should be independent of the original.
I am going to fix this specifically for the case of the
{{AnnotationEngineDescription_impl}}. In principle, other types of descriptors
could also be affected by the issue. But I do not want to make this a
potentially major/pervasive change at this time so we can see if anybody might
speak up who may be negatively affected by the change (which I hope should not
be the case).
> deep copy feature for
> org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.AnalysisEngineDescription class
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>
> Key: UIMA-6300
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6300
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: uimaj
> Affects Versions: 3.1.1SDK
> Reporter: Serge Démoulin
> Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.2.0SDK
>
> Original Estimate: 48h
> Remaining Estimate: 48h
>
> I need the following feature :
> a deep copy for the following class
> org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.AnalysisEngineDescription
> It means a copy that resolve the imports and copy the metatdatas, the
> delegates in case of aggregates and all the others attributes ...
> IMPROVEMENT : this deep copy should let the object unchanged
> That mean it should not call the method resolveImports() on the original
> object (this method changes the object)
>
> AnalysisEngineDescription_impl inherits from MetaDataObject_impl
> The class MetaDataObject_impl has a clone method
> The clone method of MetaDataObject_impl resolve the imports (changing the
> object) and makes a deep its undelying metadatas.
> {color:#ffffff}MetaDataOpl{color}
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