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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-5536:
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went back to the original v2 implementation, for backwards compatibility.
Removed this from select apis.
> uv3 remove positionUsesType from select api
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> Key: UIMA-5536
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-5536
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0SDK-alpha02
> Reporter: Marshall Schor
> Assignee: Marshall Schor
> Fix For: 3.0.0SDK-beta
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> The select API attempts to combine some of uimaFIT's capability for
> iterating. The design included a configuration choice "positionUsesType".
> This was implemented incorrectly for some cases, and it seems it would be
> hard to fix. This Jira suggests removing it altogether.
> What it does: It affects two bits of iterator operation:
> # moveTo(fs) - move to the leftmost item that "matches" fs
> # for bounded iterators: skip the item which is "equal" to the bound.
> Details: The "matches" in 1) is based on the comparator for the index. For
> Annotation indexes, this includes the typePriority. However, the select API
> framework by default doesn't use type priorities (can be configured though).
> This means, if the underlying iterator is using type priorities, then doing a
> moveTo on it will move to a spot which might not be the "left-most" when type
> priorities are not used. The correction for this has two flavors: depending
> on the setting of positionUsesType. If not specified, the correction worked,
> and moved to the left-most same-begin-end-ignoring-type. If specified, the
> correction was ignoring this, and a fix would need to scan in both directions
> to find the right type. Although this could be done, it's complex. And I
> think this is designing beyond a real need.
> Use 2 is for skipping the bounding annotation when iterating (if it is in the
> index). The normal mode for skipping is to skip only the item if it is ==
> identical to the bounding annotation. But (for UIMA v2 bounded iterator
> compatibility) a mode where the compare is done using the Annotation
> Comparator is provided. The positionUsesType would narrow this equal test by
> also requiring that the types match. I think this is unnecessarily complex,
> since I think most uses will be using the == style.
> So I propose to remove positionUsesType from the implementation /
> documentation.
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