Hi Matt, are you using a Maven-base project/build (and the Maven project layout with src/main/java, src/main/resources, etc.) or a plain Java project?
Which version of uimaFIT are you using? Best, -- Richard > On 10.12.2015, at 12:16, Matthew DeAngelis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am struggling with type auto-detection in Eclipse. Following the > documentation (and this document: > https://code.google.com/p/uimafit/wiki/TypeDescriptorDetection), I have > placed my type system descriptors in desc/types/*.xml (also just > desc/*.xml) and created types.txt in META-INF/org.apache.uima.fit with the > line classpath*:desc/types/*.xml (I have tried placing the types.txt file > in the folder META-INF/org.uimafit as well, following Richard's document > above, with the same results). However, I am still getting missing type > complaints at runtime. > > For instance, the following code runs a reader and a single analysis > engine, DJNMultiplier, that relies on the typesystem specified in > desc/types/DJTypes.xml. > > CollectionReaderDescription cr = createReaderDescription(...); > TypeSystemDescription tsd = > TypeSystemDescriptionFactory.createTypeSystemDescription(); > AnalysisEngineDescription djread = > AnalysisEngineFactory.createEngineDescription(DJNMultiplier.class,tsd); > SimplePipeline.runPipeline(cr,djread); > > This results in: "org.apache.uima.cas.CASRuntimeException: JCas type > "document.DJInfo" used in Java code, but was not declared in the XML type > descriptor." > > Changing the code to specify the location of the typesystem runs fine: > > CollectionReaderDescription cr = createReaderDescription(...); > TypeSystemDescription tsd = > TypeSystemDescriptionFactory.createTypeSystemDescription("desc/types/DJTypes"); > AnalysisEngineDescription djread = > AnalysisEngineFactory.createEngineDescription(DJNMultiplier.class,tsd); > SimplePipeline.runPipeline(cr,djread); > > The latter code would actually be fine for most of my needs, except that I > am trying to create a jar file following the instructions in the > documentation found here: > https://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/tools.uimafit.book.html#ugr.tools.uimafit.packaging. > These instructions seem predicated on typesystem auto-detection. When I use > Maven Shade to build a jar from the latter code, it complains that: "No > file with the name "desc/types/DJTypes.xml" was found in the class path or > data path". I suppose that a solution to my problem could include a way to > package up the typesystem descriptors so that they can be seen within the > jar file; I'm not especially picky about getting this thing running. > > Any help would be appreciated. I am probably missing something basic, but > I'll be darned if I can see it. > > > Regards, > Matt
