Thank you very much Thilo. I'll check this out and I'll keep you informed.
Thanks again,
Stergos.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Thilo Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Stergos,
>
> it looks to me like you're setting either the start or
> the end position to a negative value somewhere. You
> won't notice this in a normal application because nobody
> accesses those values, hence no exceptions. The service,
> on the other hand, explicitly accesses those values and
> will barf if it finds negative ones.
>
> You can inspect your offsets by running your app in CVD
> or DocumentAnalyzer, or by printing out the results
> manually. If you have a JCas, you can do this:
>
> FSIterator it = aJCas.getAnnotationIndex(Annotation.type).iterator();
> while (it.hasNext()) {
> Annotation annot = (Annotation) it.next();
> System.out.println(annot.getType() + ":" + annot.getBegin() + ":" +
> annot.getEnd());
> }
>
> I didn't test this, but something like this should work.
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Thilo
>
> Stergos D. Afantenos wrote:
>>
>> Dear Thilo,
>>
>>> we'll need more information to be able to help,
>>> the stack trace of the exception for one.
>>
>> Here is the stack trace :
>>
>> java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
>> java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1932)
>>
>> org.apache.uima.jcas.tcas.Annotation.getCoveredText(Annotation.java:119)
>>
>>
>> org.apache.uima.simpleserver.ResultExtractor.makeOutputs(ResultExtractor.java:176)
>>
>>
>> org.apache.uima.simpleserver.ResultExtractor.outputAll(ResultExtractor.java:158)
>>
>>
>> org.apache.uima.simpleserver.ResultExtractor.processTypes(ResultExtractor.java:111)
>>
>>
>> org.apache.uima.simpleserver.ResultExtractor.getResult(ResultExtractor.java:105)
>> org.apache.uima.simpleserver.Service.process(Service.java:262)
>>
>>
>> org.apache.uima.simpleserver.servlet.SimpleServerServlet.analyze(SimpleServerServlet.java:204)
>>
>>
>> org.apache.uima.simpleserver.servlet.SimpleServerServlet.doPost(SimpleServerServlet.java:183)
>> javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710)
>> javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
>>
>>> Also,
>>> I do not understand what you mean when you say
>>> "I am trying to set the spans for a jCas".
>>
>> Of course. I realized my error once I had already sent the email, so
>> it was rather late to change it. What I meant to say is that I am
>> trying to set the spans of *an annotation* that is found inside a
>> JCas. So here is the piece code which causes me headaches:
>>
>>
>> String docText = aJCas.getDocumentText();
>>
>> String[] splittedLine = line.split(":");
>> int start = Integer.parseInt(splittedLine[0]) - 1;
>> if (start >= docText.length()) start = docText.length() - 1;
>> int end = Integer.parseInt(splittedLine[1]) - 1;
>> if (end >= docText.length()) end = docText.length() - 1;
>> NemesisNE annotationNemesis = new NemesisNE(aJCas);
>> annotationNemesis.setBegin(start);
>> annotationNemesis.setEnd(end);
>> // adition of other attributes to annotationNemesis
>> annotationNemesis.addToIndexes();
>>
>> where the variable line is a ":" separated String whose first element
>> is the span start of the annotation that I am currently treating and
>> second element is the span end of the annotation that I am currently
>> treating. In addition NemesisNE is a class that I have defined in the
>> Type System.
>>
>> The above piece of code works fine if run, for example, via the
>> cpeGui, but throws the aforementioned exception if deployed as a WS.
>> If I run the following code :
>>
>>
>> String docText = aJCas.getDocumentText();
>>
>> String[] splittedLine = line.split(":");
>> //int start = Integer.parseInt(splittedLine[0]) - 1;
>> //if (start >= docText.length()) start = docText.length() - 1;
>> //int end = Integer.parseInt(splittedLine[1]) - 1;
>> //if (end >= docText.length()) end = docText.length() - 1;
>> NemesisNE annotationNemesis = new NemesisNE(aJCas);
>> //annotationNemesis.setBegin(start);
>> //annotationNemesis.setEnd(end);
>> // adition of other attributes to annotationNemesis
>> annotationNemesis.addToIndexes();
>>
>>
>> then everything runs just fine as both a WS and a normal application.
>> The problem is that in this case the spans are both 0.
>>
>> If there is any other kind of information that I could provide either
>> to you Thilo or somebody else I would be happy to do it.
>>
>> Again, thanks ( in advance :) )
>>
>> Stergos.
>
