Hi Peter,
I was still on 2.8.0. I updated to 2.8.1 and it seems to work now.
My bad, I could really have checked for updates, sorry ;-)
Thanks again for all your great effort!
Best,
Erik
> On 27. Jul 2021, at 12:09, Peter Klügl <pklu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Erik,
>
>
> which version of Ruta do you use? It looks like you use an old version
> in your maven dependencies, in which this bug hasn't been fixed yet.
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Peter
>
> Am 27.07.2021 um 12:06 schrieb Erik Fäßler:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have been having an issue with literal matching for quite some time now.
>> In the past, I just replaced all literal matching with word lists. In my
>> current script, however, this would be rather cumbersome.
>> The error looks like this:
>>
>> java.lang.NullPointerException: null
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaLiteralMatcher.getAnnotation(RutaLiteralMatcher.java:72)
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaLiteralMatcher.getMatchingAnnotations(RutaLiteralMatcher.java:62)
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaLiteralMatcher.getMatchingAnnotations(RutaLiteralMatcher.java:37)
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaRuleElement.getAnchors(RutaRuleElement.java:52)
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaRuleElement.startMatch(RutaRuleElement.java:60)
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.ComposedRuleElement.startMatch(ComposedRuleElement.java:87)
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.ComposedRuleElement.startMatch(ComposedRuleElement.java:77)
>> at org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaRule.apply(RutaRule.java:65)
>> at org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaRule.apply(RutaRule.java:56)
>> at org.apache.uima.ruta.rule.RutaRule.apply(RutaRule.java:38)
>> at
>> org.apache.uima.ruta.block.RutaScriptBlock.apply(RutaScriptBlock.java:72)
>> at org.apache.uima.ruta.RutaModule.apply(RutaModule.java:56)
>> at org.apache.uima.ruta.engine.RutaEngine.process(RutaEngine.java:612)
>> ... 11 common frames omitted
>>
>> So all I know is that something is null. But I have no idea what it could
>> be. I cannot even reproduce the issue in the Eclipse Workbench: The XMI
>> files that cause the error work without issue in Eclipse. The error only
>> occurs when running the CPE with the Ruta component that I created using the
>> Maven plugin.
>> Hence, I don’t even know what part of my script is causing the error. I have
>> rules like this:
>>
>> (WS|"("|"/") (Greek|NUM|Roman) {->MARK(Specifier)} (WS|"("|"/“);
>>
>> which I think could be the cause. But this is based on the fact that I could
>> fix the error with word lists until now. Hints and ideas on how to
>> circumvent this issue are appreciated.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Erik
