Hi Marshall, We have already think of 1st work around but it has been rejected.
As for 2nd solution, it is exactly what we want. Can you share these generic non-JCAS API though I have been lost a little bit with the references and the guides? As you have realized I used jcas (uima-fit). thank you for your help! best regards Spiros G. Meliopoulos | Software Engineer | skype: spiros.meliopoulos On 17 March 2017 at 14:44, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Spiros, > > There are many alternatives... > > UIMA chooses to normally favor performance, so it has a "compile" then > "run" > design, as you note. > > Here are some ways to work around this. > > 1) Design a runtime - flexible type. The basic idea is to have this type > keep a > level of indirection to the name - value pair(s), normally associated with > UIMA > Features and their values. For instance, you could have an array of > Strings > (for the names) and an associated array of values. > > 2) If you have a lifecycle where you can determine what the additional > features > needed are before you start your pipeline, you don't need to "compile" > things - > you can use the UIMA APIs to add those features to the type system before > you > produce your pipeline. You might think you need to "compile" the > associated > JCas methods, but UIMA provides a generic non-JCas API for accessing the > CAS, > driven by Types and Features which can be discovered at initialization > time (of > the pipeline) by your annotators. > > Of course, then you can't use JCas access methods, but you wouldn't be > using > those anyways, I'm guessing for these "new" features, because at the time > you > wrote the annotator code, you were unaware of these feature's existance. > > Does this help at all? > > > -Marshall > > On 3/17/2017 7:12 AM, Spiros Meliopoulos wrote: > > Hello uima world! > > > > I am a new user of the framework and I need some help. > > > > Let's say that I have a service that I pass to it text and it returns an > > object (org.mozilla.javascript.NativeObject) with some properties and > > values. > > > > So far, I have a way for annotators to work with selected parts > > (types/features) of that data by using an xml and jcasgen to create the > > necessary classes (features). > > > > In case response (NativeObject) includes a new property, I have to add in > > the xml and compile the project. > > > > Is there a way to make the whole process happen in runtime? In short, can > > we avoid recompile; > > > > thank you all in advance > > > > Spiros G. Meliopoulos | Software Engineer | skype: spiros.meliopoulos > > > >
