Although you have a sofa-unaware component, your requirements appear to be perfect for a sofa-aware annotator. The name of the sofa to process could be put in the CAS itself, in a Java object, or even in a file. Could you make it sofa-aware?
~Burn On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org > wrote: > Hi Asher, > > I don't think UIMA provides a straightforward way for dynamically > changing sofa mappings while a workflow/pipeline is being processed. > > It is assumed that either components are sofa-aware and can > choose themselves which views they process - or if they are > not sofa-aware, then they process whatever is mapped to the > "_InitialView". > > Even a sofa-aware component with some parameter that would allow > to configure the view to process would at least need to be "reconfigured" > to change that parameter to a different view. > > It might be possible to reinitialize a component to work on a different > view by calling initialize() and passing a UimaContext parameter there > in the additional parameters map in which you set up a mapping from > some view to the "_InitialView". > > Cheers, > > -- Richard > > > On 29.09.2016, at 15:36, Asher Stern <aste...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > I wanted to ask a question. > > > > Using UimaFit, how to tell an analysis engine, which is unaware of Sofas, > > to process a specific Sofa, without changing its code, after that engine > > has been created? > > > > I mean: > > I have an analysis engine that operates over the CAS. It uses > > JCas#getDocumentText() to take the data. It is unaware of Sofas. > > I want that engine to process a specific Sofa (a specific view). > > > > I know that when the engine is being created (using > > AnalysisEngineFactory#createEngine) I can provide a parameter with the > > default view, which makes the engine process that view (instead of > > _InitialView). > > However, I want *the same engine* to process several Sofas (separately), > > and I don't want to create an instance of the engine again and again for > > each Sofa. I need some way to tell the engine that in the next call to > > process() it shall process a specific Sofa. > > > > When I just call process() with either the CAS or a specific view as > > parameter, it processes the default view (_InitialView). Question is, how > > to guide it to process another view. > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > Asher > >
