Re: [VOTE] [CANCELLED] uimaj-3.0.0 rc1

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Good catch, correct diagnosis :-).

I'll put in a Jira to fix this.

-Marshall


On 1/28/2018 9:54 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> So I have the:
>
> * updated my local UIMAv3 SVN checkout with your latest changes (3.0.1-SNAPSHOT)
> * updated my local uimaFIT UIMAv3 SVN checkout to depend on 3.0.1-SNAPSHOT
> * installed the UIMA 3.0.0-RC 1 Eclipse plugins
> * re-generated all the customized JCas classes in the DKPro Core UIMAv3 branch
> * changed my local DKPro Core UIMAv3 to depend on 3.0.1-SNAPSHOT
> * changed my local WebAnno UIMAv3 to depend on 3.0.1-SNAPSHOT
>
> and I am trying to open a document from the English WebAnno demo now. Still,
> I am getting this error:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException: null
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.FeatureImpl.<init>(FeatureImpl.java:113) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.FeatureImpl_jcas_only.<init>(FeatureImpl_jcas_only.java:33) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.addJCasOffsets(TypeSystemImpl.java:1623) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.maybeAddJCasOffsets(TypeSystemImpl.java:1601) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.addJCasOffsetsWithSupers(TypeSystemImpl.java:1572) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.computeAdjustedFeatureOffsets(TypeSystemImpl.java:1488) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.computeAdjustedFeatureOffsets(TypeSystemImpl.java:1519) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.computeAdjustedFeatureOffsets(TypeSystemImpl.java:1519) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.computeAdjustedFeatureOffsets(TypeSystemImpl.java:1519) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.TypeSystemImpl.commit(TypeSystemImpl.java:1410) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.CASImpl.commitTypeSystem(CASImpl.java:1607) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.BinaryCasSerDes.reinit(BinaryCasSerDes.java:312) ~[classes/:?]
> 	at org.apache.uima.cas.impl.Serialization.deserializeCASComplete(Serialization.java:129) ~[classes/:?]
>
> Looking at the code, the problematic line in FeatureImpl is:
>
>     this.rangeTypeClass = (rangeType == null) 
>                      ? null
>                      : CasSerializerSupport.classifyType(rangeType);
>
> ... and here during runtime "rangeType" is null. 
>
> The problem here seems to be that "this.rangeTypeClass" is of type "int" and the statement tries
> to assign "null" to it if no rangeType is set. The Eclipse/Java compiler doesn't seem to be smart enough to
> see that this is an invalid assignment.
>
> I am replying with this to the UIMAv3 RC mail because this looks to me like a critical bug.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard