If only the Article view is copied, a new view of the same name is created
in the new CAS, but it seems not be possible to copy the Article View to
the _InitialView in the new CAS. Which I want to do, because otherwise
the CAS cannot be opened in the Cas Editor (lacks multi view support).

Is there a way doing this?

Oterhwise the current copyCasView method could be extended
with a new destination view name argument:
public void copyCasView(CAS aSrcCasView, String dstViewName, boolean 
aCopySofa)

The current copyCasView method would then simply call the extended one
with the view name of the source view .

Jörn

On 10/20/10 4:09 PM, Eddie Epstein wrote:
> Hi Jörn,
>
> The only way to do this now is to create a 2nd CAS, copy over the
> parts wanted using the org.apache.uima.util.CasCopier and serialize
> the new CAS.
>
> A more direct solution is the proposal for serialization to support
> "CAS projections".
> A brief description is in
>    https://cwiki.apache.org/UIMA/reducing-overhead-for-remote-service-calls.html
>
> Eddie
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Jörn Kottmann<kottmann@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   Hi everyone,
>>
>> is it possible to only serialize one view of a CAS ?
>>
>> In my case the "_InitialView" contains an xml document, which
>> is transformed by an AE into a plain text representation, and
>> placed in a view called "Article".
>> The serialization code now should only write the "Article"
>> view into the xmi file, and dropping the "_InitialView".
>>
>> As far as I know the "_InitialView" must always exist,
>> so it would be ok to just rename the "Article" view
>> to "_InitialView" in the serialzed CAS.
>>
>> I looked at the XmiCasSerializer class but could not find
>> a setting which specifies which views are serialized.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jörn
>>