I'm no expert here, but this seems like a bug to me... You might want to file a Jira bug report at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA
-Marshall On 5/30/2013 3:53 AM, Erik Fäßler wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working with a CPE descriptor which is loaded by my Java application, > adopted to some parameters given to the application, creates the CPE and runs > it. > Now I wanted to set a parameter value of an AE where this value was not > overridden in the CPE descriptor but only set in the AE descriptor itself. > > I noticed that setting the value in the > CasProcessorConfigurationParameterSettings did not have any effect, i.e. > retrieving the value after setting did not reveal the set value. A short view > onto the code of the class reveals why: > > It has a parameterList which is correctly extended by new parameters. > And it has an array "params" which is created in the constructor and then > never changed. > > Then, when asking for values, a loop iterates over the existing parameter > values and returns the one with the correct name - except that the loop > doesn't iterate over the parameterList which contains the actual values, but > over the "params" array which doesn't seem to contain anything except of as > many null values as there were parameter overrides in the CPE. > > So my workaround for now will be to override the parameter in the CPE > descriptor and then be able to set it to whatever I want. > > But my main question is: Is this intended behaviour? The params array seems > useless to me and the being able to set parameters which can never be > retrieved again seems a bit odd. > > Employed UIMA version is 2.4.0. > > Best regards, > > Erik
