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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:36:12 -0400
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Subject: Re: ClassCastException when passing String[] parameters to external
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Hi Richard,

Thanks a lot for the pointers. I'll take a look at the code and docs and
figure out how best to procede.

Best,
jta

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <rec@apache.org=
>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there are different variations of shared/external resources:
>
> * based on Resource_ImplBase - currently only supports String values
> * based on SharedResourceObject - should support the typical value types
> also supported for readers and AEs
>
> Unfortunately, the support for the SharedResourceObject-kind is not (yet)
> great.
> It requires some hacking around. Both approaches are documented in the
> Guide:
>
> http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/tools.uimafit.book.html#d5e485
>
> For more "examples", you could check out the ExternalResourceFactoryTest
> in the uimaFIT code base.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard
>
> On 10.04.2015, at 20:29, Jos=C3=A9 Tom=C3=A1s Atria <jtatria@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm getting this error when trying to pass values to a
> > @ConfiugrationParameter over a String[] field in a Resource
> > implementation...
> >
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException:
> > [Ljava.lang.String; cannot be cast to java.lang.String
> > at
> >
> org.apache.uima.fit.factory.ExternalResourceFactory.createExternalResourc=
eDescription(ExternalResourceFactory.java:177)
> > at
> >
> org.apache.uima.fit.factory.ExternalResourceFactory.createExternalResourc=
eDescription(ExternalResourceFactory.java:122)
> >
> > In the debugger, I can see that starting at line 175 in
> > ExternalResourceFactory:
> >
> >          Parameter param =3D new Parameter_impl();
> >          param.setName((String) aParams[i * 2]);
> >          param.setValue((String) aParams[i * 2 + 1]);
> >          params.add(param);
> >
> > aParams[i * 2] correctly resolves to the param key, while aParams[i * 2=
 +
> > 1] resolves to the full string array, so param.setValue( (String)
> aParams[i
> > * 2 + 1 ]) fails with the above class cast exception.
> >
> > I remember it being possible to pass String[]'s as values for
> > ConfigurationParameters passed to AnalysisEngineFactory... is this usag=
e
> > not supported for external resources or am i doing something wrong?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > =E2=80=8Bjta=E2=80=8B
> >
> > --
> > entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
>
>


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