[jira] [Updated] (UIMA-6365) Warn or fail if a primitive field is marked as a non-mandatory parameter

["Richard Eckart de Castilho (Jira)" <de...@uima.apache.org>]

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Richard Eckart de Castilho updated UIMA-6365:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 3.3.0uimaFIT)

> Warn or fail if a primitive field is marked as a non-mandatory parameter
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>                 Key: UIMA-6365
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6365
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: uimaFIT-Maven-Plugin
>            Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
>            Priority: Major
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> The {{mandatory}} flag on configuration parameters indicates if the target field accepts a {{null}} value or not. For primitive fields, this is obviously not the case. Thus, for primitive fields, {{mandatory}} must always be {{true}} and if we want to avoid that the user actually has to specify the parameter every time, the {{defaultValue}} must be set. That makes the parameter effectively optional from the user's perspective.
> Probably the best place to catch this is the "generate" or "enhance" goal of the Maven plugin - which could immediately fail. 
> It could also be detected by uimaFIT itself at runtime, but then it would be better just to warn (maybe warn less with high frequency). 



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