Dear Mario, you are right - that appears to be a bug. Could you just copy/paste your analysis into a Jira issue please?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/ Best, -- Richard > On 01.11.2017, at 18:02, Mario Juric <m...@unsilo.ai> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering what exactly the semantics of JCasUtil.selectAt is supposed > to be after looking into the implementation, since the JavaDoc isn’t very > precise. I initially thought that it would select annotations of the given > type with the exact begin and end, but this is not the case when inspecting > the implementation. The problem is in CasUtil.selectAt with the following > while loop: > > while (it.isValid()) { > AnnotationFS a = it.get(); > // If the offsets do not match the specified offets, we're done > if (a.getBegin() != aBegin && a.getEnd() != aEnd) { > break; > } > it.moveToNext(); > list.add(a); > } > > I would have expected that either begin or end must be different to drop the > item, i.e. "if (a.getBegin() != aBegin || a.getEnd() != aEnd)" instead. This > is obviously not the case, and it does not have the same behaviour like > selectCovered either, so what is the intend if it’s not a bug? > > Best, > Mario
