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

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package org.apache.uima.fit.component;

import org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.AnalysisEngineProcessException;
import org.apache.uima.cas.CASException;
import org.apache.uima.cas.CASRuntimeException;
import org.apache.uima.fit.descriptor.ConfigurationParameter;
import org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas;

/**
 * This annotator will copy the text of one view to another view. It is required that source view
 * already exists. If the destination view does not yet exist, then it will be created. A use case
 * for this analysis engine is when you have a "gold view" which is populated with text and
 * gold-standard annotations. Now you want to run your system/pipeline on a "system view" so that at
 * the end you can compare the annotations in the system view with those in the gold view. It is
 * convenient to have an annotator that simply copies the text from the gold view to the system view
 * before running a pipeline on the system view.
 * 
 * 
 */

public class ViewTextCopierAnnotator extends JCasAnnotator_ImplBase {

  /**
   * The parameter name for the name of the source view
   */
  public static final String PARAM_SOURCE_VIEW_NAME = "sourceViewName";
  @ConfigurationParameter(mandatory = true)
  private String sourceViewName;

  /**
   * The parameter name for the name of the destination view
   */
  public static final String PARAM_DESTINATION_VIEW_NAME = "destinationViewName";
  @ConfigurationParameter(mandatory = true)
  private String destinationViewName;

  @Override
  public void process(final JCas jCas) throws AnalysisEngineProcessException {
    try {
      final JCas sourceView = jCas.getView(sourceViewName);
      JCas destinationView;
      try {
        destinationView = jCas.getView(destinationViewName);
      } catch (CASRuntimeException ce) {
        destinationView = jCas.createView(destinationViewName);
      }
      destinationView.setDocumentText(sourceView.getDocumentText());
    } catch (CASException e) {
      throw new AnalysisEngineProcessException(e);
    }
  }

}