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Tong Fin commented on UIMA-1176:
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I think there are 2 ways to use "import" in UIMA descriptors:
1. easy to read the descriptor and easy to maintain and share across the
descriptors
2. use someone else descriptor
Adam's use-case is the case#2 and I think most people use case#1 more often
than cas#2.
If we support this new feature request, I suggest that we make it as an
"option" with the current behavior as the "default".
There are many use-cases to think about. For example:
<analysis engine descriptor>
<import localtion="my_non_shared_type_system.xml">
</analysis engine descriptor>
<descriptor for my_non_shared_type_system>
<import location="someone_else_shared_type_system.xml>
</descriptor for my_non_shared_type_system>
<analysis engine descriptor>
<import localtion="someone_else_shared_type_system..xml">
</analysis engine descriptor>
> JCasGen shouldn't generate types for imported type systems (or at least it
> should be an option)
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>
> Key: UIMA-1176
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1176
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Eclipse plugins, Tools
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Adam Lally
>
> Our project reuses a common type system that we got from a different source.
> The common type system descriptor is imported into our main type system
> descriptor. The common type system has its own JCas types, in a jar file.
> When we generate JCas types for our main type system descriptor, it currently
> generates all of the classes for all of the imported type systems as well.
> We don't want this behavior, so we have to manually go through and delete
> those classes.
> I think JCasGen should only generate types for the type system descriptor
> that you run it on, not on imported type system descriptors.
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