uimafit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/fit/component/JCasCollectionReader_ImplBase.java

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package org.apache.uima.fit.component;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.uima.UimaContext;
import org.apache.uima.cas.CAS;
import org.apache.uima.cas.CASException;
import org.apache.uima.collection.CollectionException;
import org.apache.uima.collection.CollectionReader_ImplBase;
import org.apache.uima.fit.component.initialize.ConfigurationParameterInitializer;
import org.apache.uima.fit.component.initialize.ExternalResourceInitializer;
import org.apache.uima.fit.descriptor.OperationalProperties;
import org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas;
import org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException;

/**
 * Base class for JCas collection readers which initializes itself based on annotations.
 * 
 */
@OperationalProperties(outputsNewCases = true)
public abstract class JCasCollectionReader_ImplBase extends CollectionReader_ImplBase {
  // This method should not be overwritten. Overwrite initialize(UimaContext) instead.
  @Override
  public final void initialize() throws ResourceInitializationException {
    ConfigurationParameterInitializer.initialize(this, getUimaContext());
    ExternalResourceInitializer.initialize(this, getUimaContext());
    initialize(getUimaContext());
  }

  /**
   * This method should be overwritten by subclasses.
   * 
   * @param context
   *          the UIMA context the component is running in
   * @throws ResourceInitializationException
   *           if a failure occurs during initialization.
   */
  public void initialize(final UimaContext context) throws ResourceInitializationException {
    // Nothing by default
  }

  // This method should not be overwritten. Overwrite getNext(JCas) instead.
  @Override
  public final void getNext(final CAS cas) throws IOException, CollectionException {
    try {
      getNext(cas.getJCas());
    } catch (CASException e) {
      throw new CollectionException(e);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Subclasses should implement this method rather than {@link #getNext(CAS)}
   * 
   * @param jCas
   *          the {@link JCas} to store the read data to
   * @throws IOException
   *           if there was a low-level I/O problem
   * @throws CollectionException
   *           if there was another problem
   */
  public abstract void getNext(JCas jCas) throws IOException, CollectionException;

  @Override
  public void close() throws IOException {
    // Do nothing per default
  }
}