Re: Adding methods to UIMA annotation types defined in XML

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

Sure. You generate the JCas classes once and then you add the methods you want
to them. Cf. e.g. 

https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-core/blob/8043e10bf10a61fe47e21946ea609bda9f2278a0/dkpro-core-api-metadata-asl/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/dkpro/core/api/metadata/type/DocumentMetaData.java#L290-L447

But the question is: why do you want to add new methods? (and is it really a 
good idea?)

Cheers,

-- Richard

Adding methods to UIMA annotation types defined in XML

[Alain Désilets]

One of the things that drives me nuts about the UIMA type definition system
is that it seems very hard (if not impossible?) to create new types of
annotation that have additional methods.

My approach to dealing with that has been to wrap the annotation into a
wrapper class that decorates the annotation with new methods.

But I wonder if there is a more direct way of doing that?

Thx.