Hi,
I'm having a small problem in testing an UIMA annotator. My annotator XYZ
extends JCasAnnotator_ImplBase which I understands, implements part of the
AnalysisComponent interface.
I usually create my test annotator from an AnalysisEngintDesrition like this:
AnalysisEngine testAnnotator = produceAnalysisEngine(some
AnalysisEngineDescription);
This is fine as long as I want to call methods like process() or initialize()
from the AnalysisEngine interface.
Now my annotator XYZ has some additional public methods to get internal state
information like XYZ.getFoo() which I want to call, which cant be done via the
AnalysisEngine interface. I also can't cast the AnalysisEngine to my annotator
XYZ because this extends AnalysisComponent and both don't seem to be directly
connected in the class hirarchy.
So here's my question: somehow UIMA needs to internally know the connection
between my AnalysisEngine instance and my custom implementation class XYZ to be
able to route method calls (like process()) to it. Can I somehow get the
"AnalysisComponent" instance underlying an AnalysisEngine to be able to cast to
my annotators class? Otherwise I can't test any additional public methods I
added to my annotator. Any hints appreciated.
Christoph Büscher
