>> How can one get access now to types that directly inherit from TOP?
>
> All access methods should still work. What exactly does
> no longer work for you?
I believe I had some code that initially already didn't work, but due to UIMA
2.2.2 not supporting generics, I didn't notice it. I had something like this:
class MetaData extends TOP
MetaData metaData = (TOP)
jcas.getAnnotationIndex(MetaData.type).iterator().next();
In 2.2.2 this did not cause an error, but it likely also didn't work and I just
failed to notice it.
The problem here is that RunInformation inherits from TOP, not from Annotation.
But getAnnotationIndex(...) returns an index of <Annotation> which in turn gets
me an FSIterator<Annotation> so that next() returns an Annotation. Since
RunInformation does not inherit from Annotation, that does not work.
Digging into the API again, I believe the fix should be this:
MetaData metaData = (MetaData)
jcas.getIndexRepository().getAllIndexedFS(MetaData.type).next()
Cheers,
-- Richard
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