As far as I know, CPE does not work with in-memory descriptors (or I never dug deep enough). So if you use CPE (e.g. through the uimaFIT CpeBuilder or otherwise), there is probably some XML serialization of the descriptors involved.
Anyway, I think that pinpoints the problem pretty precisely and it should be easy to set up a test case for it. Would you mind opening a Jira with your findings? Cheers, -- Richard On 15.06.2015, at 08:43, Mario Gazzo <mario.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am referring to to this Github repo: > > https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit > <https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit> > > Thought it was published by you as a mirror of the SVN repo or the other way > around. > > The trimming is as such not a technical issue for me right now but I felt it > might become important in some other case. I just noticed it when I added > ekstra spaces to improve readability of my output. Initially I thought it was > the HTMLConverter but when I inspected it then I could see that it had > happened somewhere before configuration parameter initialisation. > > I then inspected the descriptor right after creation as you suggested. The > value was not trimmed at that point. Later during runtime initialisation > without doing any XML serialization this time, the value is trimmed inside > ConfigurationManagerImplBase::getConfigParameterValue right after the lookup > operation (used debugger for value inspection). This was inside a UIMA core > component though but the trim occurs somewhere between descriptor creation > and AE initialisation. Seems this is not an UIMAfit issue afterall. > > I did a small example app where the HTMLAnnotator and HTMLConverter > descriptors were also aggregated before execution but here the trimming did > not materialise at runtime but only in the serialised XML. Then it occurred > to me that my example used the SimplePipeline whereas our main application > uses CPE. I then switched to the SimplePipeline and the trimming was now gone > there as well. Seems that trimming only happens inside the CPE and when XML > serialising the pipeline. > > Cheers, > Mario
