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Posted to commits@uima.apache.org by re...@apache.org on 2014/02/17 17:35:06 UTC

svn commit: r1569049 - /uima/uimafit/trunk/uimafit-docbook/src/docbook/tools.uimafit.externalresources.xml

Author: rec
Date: Mon Feb 17 16:35:06 2014
New Revision: 1569049

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1569049
Log:
[UIMA-3591] Multi-values parameter does not accept single value when @ConfigurationParameter is not present

Modified:
    uima/uimafit/trunk/uimafit-docbook/src/docbook/tools.uimafit.externalresources.xml

Modified: uima/uimafit/trunk/uimafit-docbook/src/docbook/tools.uimafit.externalresources.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/uima/uimafit/trunk/uimafit-docbook/src/docbook/tools.uimafit.externalresources.xml?rev=1569049&r1=1569048&r2=1569049&view=diff
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--- uima/uimafit/trunk/uimafit-docbook/src/docbook/tools.uimafit.externalresources.xml (original)
+++ uima/uimafit/trunk/uimafit-docbook/src/docbook/tools.uimafit.externalresources.xml Mon Feb 17 16:35:06 2014
@@ -80,6 +80,18 @@ createDependencyAndBind(tokenizer, UimaU
         easily. However, OpenNLP declares parameters centrally in <classname>UimaUtil</classname>.
         Thus, the example above is correct, although unconvential.</para>
       </note>
+      <note>
+        <para>Note that uimaFIT is unable to perform type-coercion on parameters if a descriptor
+          is created from a class that does not contain <classname>@ConfigurationParameter</classname>
+          annotations, such as the OpenNLP <classname>Tokenizer</classname>. Such a descriptor does
+          not contain any parameter declarations! However, it is
+          still possible to configure such a component using uimaFIT by passing exactly the expected
+          types as parameter values. Thus, we need use the <methodname>getName()</methodname> method 
+          to get the class name as a string, instead of simply passing the class itself. Also, setting
+          multi-valued parameter from a list or single value does not work here. Multi-values parameters
+          must be passed as an array of the required type. Only the default UIMA types are possible:
+          <type>String</type>, <type>boolean</type>, <type>int</type>, and <type>float</type>.</para>
+      </note>
     </section>
     <section>
       <title>uimaFIT-aware components</title>