Hi Marshall, as far as I can tell all the mapping methods described there need to be applied *before* instantiating an AE. The problem is that while I can use CAS.getView(...) or JCas.getView(...) to access the desired view I find no way to call the process() method of an existing AE instance on it.
One application we have right now is having a pretty memory-heavy pipeline loaded into memory that we need to apply to texts from different sources (typically as a web service). Depending on the source we may need to first apply translation, cleanup, etc., all of which create new views on which to operate. We are not using CPE or any other "standard" execution engine but rather create the initial JCas from the incoming text and then apply aggregate engines (using their process() method) to that JCas as needed. Best, Jens On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 10:46 PM, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is anything in > https://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.10.2/tutorials_and_ > users_guides.html#ugr.tug.mvs.name_mapping_application > helpful? > > If not, could you add some details that says why not? > > -Marshall > > > On 7/5/2018 8:52 AM, Jens Grivolla wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to run an already instantiated AE on a view other than > > _InitialView. Unfortunately, I can't just call process() on the desired > > view, as there is a call to Util.getStartingView(...) > > in PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl that forces it back to _InitialView. > > > > The view mapping methods I found (e.g. using and AggregateBuilder) work > on > > AE descriptions, so I would need to create additional instances (with the > > corresponding memory overhead). Is there a way to remap/rename the views > in > > a JCas before calling process() so that the desired view is seen as the > > _InitialView? It looks like CasCopier.copyCasView(..) could maybe be used > > for this, but it doesn't feel quite right. > > > > Best, > > Jens > > > >
