Adam Lally (JIRA) wrote:
JCasGen should notify user when "type merging" has occurred -----------------------------------------------------------Key: UIMA-177 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-177 Project: UIMA Issue Type: Improvement Components: Core Java Framework Reporter: Adam Lally Assigned To: Marshall Schor In light of the issues with composability of annotators that use JCas combined with "type merging" (using different definitions of the same type, with different feature sets), we should add a notification to JCasGen and the CDE whenever type merging is detected. The user should be warned that what they are doing may negatively impact the composability of their annotator.
The CDE uses the UIMA Framework calls to build the merged type system; it doesn't do any merging itself. Can the Framework code pass back value somehow indicating if feature-extension style of merging happened?
If so, this could probably get into 2.1. -Marshall
Can we get this in for 2.1?
