Hi Aaron,
By chance does the annotator descriptor declare Sofa input or output
capabilities? If so, the CAS passed to process is a base CAS, which has no
index repository.
Here's some code from CasImpl.java
public FSIndexRepository getIndexRepository() {
if (this == this.svd.baseCAS) {
// BaseCas has no indexes for users
return null;
}
Eddie
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Aaron Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> My annotator's process method begins like this:
>
> public void process(JCas jcas) throws AnalysisEngineProcessException
> {
> FSIndexRepository repo = jcas.getFSIndexRepository();
>
> I'm getting a NullPointerException at the line after that, because repo is
> null. How can this happen?
>
> Possibly relevant: the CAS I'm processing was loaded by the CVD from an XMI
> file. In the CVD I see an index called
> blah.blah.blah.MyType_GeneratedIndex, whereas I expected to see an index
> called MyTypeIndex that we defined.
>
> -Aaron
>
