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| * |
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| |
| package org.apache.uima.collection; |
| |
| import org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceCreationSpecifier; |
| import org.apache.uima.resource.metadata.ProcessingResourceMetaData; |
| |
| /** |
| * An <code>CasInitializerDescription</code> contains all of the information needed to instantiate |
| * and use an {@link org.apache.uima.collection.CasInitializer}. |
| * |
| * @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 CasInitializerDescription extends ResourceCreationSpecifier { |
| /** |
| * Retrieves the metadata that describes the CasInitializer. |
| * |
| * @return the <code>ProcessingResourceMetaData</code> object containing the CasInitializer's |
| * metadata. This object can be modified. |
| */ |
| public ProcessingResourceMetaData getCasInitializerMetaData(); |
| } |
