Should be, yes. Look in $UIMACPP_HOME/scriptators/uima.i and search for #ifdef SWIGPERL.
Eddie On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Edward Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, that helps a lot. > > I ran across a message from 2006: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=13856521 > that in the comments suggests "there are Perl ties to make FSIterators look > like arrays and FeatureStructures look like hashes." Is this feature still > available? > > > Edward. > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> The argument for $annotation->getStringValue() is a Feature object. >> Presumably your type system has created a feature named >> "annotatorName" for some Type derived from uima.tcas.Annotation. To >> access that feature in Perl, first get a handle to that Feature object >> in the typeSystemInit method, something like: >> $main::annotnamefeat = >> $main::mytype->getFeatureByBaseName("annotatorName"); >> where $main::mytype is the Type object for your custom type. >> >> You can test this by modifying sample.pl, first in typeSystemInit: >> $main::keybeginfeat = >> $main::keywordtype->getFeatureByBaseName("begin"); >> >> then in in the loop at the bottom listing annotations created, add: >> print "(begin)= (", $anno->getIntValue($main::keybeginfeat),")\n"; >> >> Eddie >> >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Edward Johnson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I am having difficulty getting/setting a types features from within >> > a perl annotator. I have tried a few things without success: >> > >> > print $annotation->getStringValue('annotatorName'),"\n"; >> > TypeError in method 'FeatureStructure_getStringValue', argument 2 of >> > type 'Feature const &' >> > >> > print $annotation->getFSValue('annotatorName')\n"; >> > TypeError in method 'FeatureStructure_getFSValue', argument 2 of >> > type 'Feature const &' >> > >> > print $annotation->{'annotatorName'}\n"; >> > Can't locate auto/perltator/AnnotationFS/swig_annota.al in @INC >> > (@INC contains: ...) at perltator.pm line 33 >> > >> > The first two messages suggest that I should be passing a Feature >> > object instead of a string, however, there doesn't appear to be a >> > way to set the Feature object's name. >> > >> > In the above examples, the type was created with an xml descriptor >> > and has a string feature named 'annotatorName'. >> > >> > Could someone tell me the correct way to do this? >> > >> > Thank you. >> > Edward. >> > >
