Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up casting like this:
FlowControllerContext_impl fcContext =
(FlowControllerContext_impl)getContext();
This is in my custom flow controller, so getContext() is a superclass
(FlowController_ImplBase) method.
The reason I want to use a session object to store my properties is that
the API says these sessions are per client. My UIMA app is running in a
JBoss container that is accessed by a web service call. So multiple
clients could be accessing it simultaneously, each one passing slightly
different parameters. In the web service method I do this:
protected AnalysisEngine recognitionAE;
...
recognitionAE.getUimaContext().getSession().put(STEMMER_KEY_NAME,
stemmerAlgorithmKey);
Then later in my custom flow controller I want to get this property and
use it to control the flow.
I'm not familiar with the external resource support. Can I do something
similar using that?
Thanks,
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: Burn Lewis [mailto:burnle...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 8:26 PM
To: user@uima.apache.org
Subject: Re: Sessions
With a cast I think you can get the root context and use its session
object.
Session rootSession =
((UimaContextAdmin)aContext).getRootContext().getSession();
Note that the the Javadocs say developers should not use this interface!
It may be preferable to use the external resource support to share a map
amongst annotators.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Eddie Epstein <eaepst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am not 100% sure here, but think that an analytic's UimaContext is
> fixed after the component has been instantiated. For dynamic control
> of processing, the flow controller could use something outside of the
> UIMA framework, or the analytic read a control key put in the CAS
> itself.
>
> Eddie
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Kline, Larry D
> <larry.kl...@usoncology.com> wrote:
> > I have a remotely deployed uima application (running in jboss and
> > using a pear file) that has a web service front end. One of the web
> > service methods sets a value into the uima session.
> >
> >
> >
> > recognitionAE.getUimaContext().getSession().put("g2_stemmer",
> > stemmerAlgorithmKey);
> >
> >
> >
> > Then I would like to get that value in a user defined flow
controller.
> > But in the flow controller I execute this:
> >
> >
> >
> > fcContext = getContext(); // this is
> > a FlowController method
> >
> > String stemmer =
> > (String)fcContext.getSession().get(STEMMER_KEY_NAME);
> >
> >
> >
> > And I get a different session object. Is there some way to get the
> > root session object?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Larry
> >
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