Re: generics: CasPool
Adam Lally wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jörn Kottmannkottm...@gmail.com wrote: The CasPool has a constructor CasPool(int aNumInstances, Collection aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData, Properties aPerformanceTuningSettings, ResourceManager aResourceManager) where aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData is a collection which can contain according to javadoc AnalysisEngineDescription, CollectionReaderDescription, CasConsumerDescription or ProcessingResourceMetaData objects A reference of the Collection is passed to fillPool which passes the Collection to a CasDefinition constructor which then casts everything to ProcessingResourceMetaData, which will result in a ClassCastException in the case of AnalysisEngineDescription, CollectionReaderDescription and CasConsumerDescription objects. Well, when we use generics we get an error. Good catch, that javadoc does seem to be wrong. I wonder if it was correct at some point in the past and the code has changed? Maybe, at least it was not changed through the generics. Jörn
generics: CasPool
The CasPool has a constructor CasPool(int aNumInstances, Collection aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData, Properties aPerformanceTuningSettings, ResourceManager aResourceManager) where aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData is a collection which can contain according to javadoc AnalysisEngineDescription, CollectionReaderDescription, CasConsumerDescription or ProcessingResourceMetaData objects A reference of the Collection is passed to fillPool which passes the Collection to a CasDefinition constructor which then casts everything to ProcessingResourceMetaData, which will result in a ClassCastException in the case of AnalysisEngineDescription, CollectionReaderDescription and CasConsumerDescription objects. Well, when we use generics we get an error. Jörn
Re: generics: CasPool
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jörn Kottmannkottm...@gmail.com wrote: The CasPool has a constructor CasPool(int aNumInstances, Collection aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData, Properties aPerformanceTuningSettings, ResourceManager aResourceManager) where aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData is a collection which can contain according to javadoc AnalysisEngineDescription, CollectionReaderDescription, CasConsumerDescription or ProcessingResourceMetaData objects A reference of the Collection is passed to fillPool which passes the Collection to a CasDefinition constructor which then casts everything to ProcessingResourceMetaData, which will result in a ClassCastException in the case of AnalysisEngineDescription, CollectionReaderDescription and CasConsumerDescription objects. Well, when we use generics we get an error. Good catch, that javadoc does seem to be wrong. I wonder if it was correct at some point in the past and the code has changed? -Adam
