uimaj-2.2.0-incubating/uimaj-core/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/collection/CasInitializer.java

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package org.apache.uima.collection;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.uima.cas.CAS;
import org.apache.uima.cas.TypeSystem;
import org.apache.uima.resource.ConfigurableResource;
import org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException;
import org.apache.uima.resource.metadata.ProcessingResourceMetaData;

/**
 * A component that takes an Object and initializes a {@link CAS}.
 * <p>
 * CAS Initializers may be used by some {@link CollectionReader} implementations.
 * 
 * @deprecated As of v2.0, CAS Initializers are deprecated. A component that performs an operation
 *             like HTML detagging should instead be implemented as a "multi-Sofa" annotator. See
 *             {@link org.apache.uima.examples.XmlDetagger} for an example.
 * 
 */
public interface CasInitializer extends ConfigurableResource {
  /**
   * Informs this CasInitializer that the CAS TypeSystem has changed. The CollectionReader must call
   * this method whenever the CollectionReader's typeSystemInit() method is called.
   * <p>
   * In this method, the CasInitializer should use the {@link TypeSystem} to resolve the names of
   * Type and Features to the actual {@link org.apache.uima.cas.Type} and
   * {@link org.apache.uima.cas.Feature} objects, which can then be used during processing.
   * 
   * @throws ResourceInitializationException
   *           if the type system is not compatible with this CAS Initializer
   */
  public void typeSystemInit(TypeSystem aTypeSystem) throws ResourceInitializationException;

  /**
   * Reads content and metadata from an Object and initializes a <code>CAS</code>.
   * 
   * @param aObj
   *          the object to process
   * @param aCAS
   *          the CAS to populate
   * 
   * @throws CollectionException
   *           if an error occurs during initialization of the CAS
   * @throws IOException
   *           if an I/O failure occurs
   */
  public void initializeCas(Object aObj, CAS aCAS) throws CollectionException, IOException;

  /**
   * Gets the metadata that describes this <code>CasInitializer</code>.
   * 
   * @return an object containing all metadata for this CasInitializer
   */
  public ProcessingResourceMetaData getProcessingResourceMetaData();
}