Richard Eckart de Castilho created UIMA-6382: ------------------------------------------------
Summary: Better alternative for CasCreationUtils Key: UIMA-6382 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6382 Project: UIMA Issue Type: New Feature Components: Core Java Framework Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho The {{CasCreationUtils}} class is the way of creating new CAS instances, but its signatures are becoming a bit unwieldy. E.g. we have a {{CasCreationUtils.createCas()}} to create a CAS without any type system definition and we have a {{CasCreationUtils.createCas(tsd, null, null, null)}} to create one with a type system definition and nothing really in between. In would propose investigating a builder-like approach where we could write something like: ``` CAS cas = CAS.builder().withTypeSystem(tsd).build(); CAS cas = CAS.builder() .withDefinition(CasDefinition) .withTypeSystem(tsd) .withTypePriorities(...) .withFsIndexes(...) .addAnalysisEngineDescription(...) // can be called multiple times .addMetaDataObject(...) // can be called multiple times .withResourceManager(...) .withProperties(...) .withProperty(...) .build(); ``` -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)