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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-5769:
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It seems that this object, "FeatureStructureSelection" is all about having a
selection of Feature Structures.
I agree that the "toList()" method intuitively seems to mean that this object
can be converted to a list of FeatureStructures. So, in that sense, this
method starts with one object, a FeatureStructureSelection, and converts it to
a list. So, to me, this seems like a better name than getList.
> Inconsistent method name
> ------------------------
>
> Key: UIMA-5769
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-5769
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: CAS Editor
> Reporter: KuiLIU
> Priority: Major
>
> The following method is named "toList" that seems like to convert one object
> to a list, but the method just returns a list of FeatureStructure objects, so
> that the method name "getList" should be more clear than "toList".
> {code:java}
> /**
> * Retrieves a list of {@link FeatureStructure} objects.
> *
> * @return all selected {@link FeatureStructure} objects
> */
> public List<FeatureStructure> toList() {
> return mFeatureStructures;
> }
> {code}
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