Hi, there shouldn't be any reason that an AE need to access its specified. Relevant information should be accessible via the UimaContext (parameters and resources). I'd guess there is a good chance that you are trying to solve a problem in an unsupported way that could be solved better otherwise. It seems you do not tell us about your original problem, but rather about a problem you ran into while trying to fix your original problem. What is the original problem?
Cheers, -- Richard Am 20.02.2013 um 21:35 schrieb Shahim Essaid <[email protected]>: > I looked a little closer at the code and it appears that this is not > possible in the current implementation. > > So a related question would be the following. Is there any harm in > passing _and holding_ a reference from parent resources to child > resources, and then eventually to an analysis component? This could be > done in the initialization map and then nullified in the destroy call. > I can easily add this to the code but I am not sure about any > consequences of doing this. Would this cause any memory leaks or any > other issues? Is the destroy method call guaranteed if any exceptions > are thrown? I'm looking through the code to find these answers but a > confirmation from the UIMA developers would be very appreciated. > > Best, > Shahim > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Shahim Essaid <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a use case where I would like be able to get the AnalysisEngine >> object from an AnalysisComponent object at runtime in order to get to >> the: >> >> private ResourceCreationSpecifier mDescription; (or the aggregate's >> corresponding field.) >> >> in the PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl class. >> >> This will help my use case in two different ways. First, it will give >> me a single unique object for the current engine regardless how many >> component instances are created from my class and the object will be >> specific to the current engine in case my component class is >> instantiated in multiple engines. Second, I can get full access to the >> specifier that was used to create the engine. >> >> Is this possible? I tried to look through the various object >> references while debugging but couldn't figure out how to get to the >> analysis engine object. I was able to get hold of the >> ConfigurationManager object for the engine (which appears to be a >> single object per engine) but not the engine object itself. I know I >> can coordinate this from the application side but I would like to be >> able to do this by simply including the component in an engine without >> any other changes. >> >> Thanks, >> Shahim -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Eckart de Castilho Technical Lead Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUD) FB 20 Computer Science Department Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany phone [+49] (0)6151 16-7477, fax -5455, room S2/02/B117 [email protected] www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de -------------------------------------------------------------------
