[jira] [Commented] (UIMA-2958) Do not follow references outside a project

["Marshall Schor (JIRA)" <de...@uima.apache.org>]

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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-2958:
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Is this Jira a request to improve the behavior of the jcasgen maven plugin?  or something broader?

If it is for the jcasgen maven plugin, is the need to block following any and all imports in the set of types specified by the arguments to the plugin, unless they are explicitly among the typesystem descriptors specified directly as arguments to the plugin?
                
> Do not follow references outside a project
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: UIMA-2958
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2958
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
>             Fix For: 2.4.1SDK
>
>
> Rationale from UIMA-1176
> {quote}
> Our project reuses a common type system that we got from a different source. The common type system descriptor is imported into our main type system descriptor. The common type system has its own JCas types, in a jar file.
> When we generate JCas types for our main type system descriptor, it currently generates all of the classes for all of the imported type systems as well. We don't want this behavior, so we have to manually go through and delete those classes.
> I think JCasGen should only generate types for the type system descriptor that you run it on, not on imported type system descriptors.
> {quote}
> One way to solve it as described in UIMA-2471
> {quote}
> Jg.main0 takes an array of string arguments. To make JCasGen limit the cover classes it generates to just those whose type definitions are contained in some directory (at any sub directory level), you pass 2 additional arguments in this array:
> 1) "-limitToDirectory" and then following that
> 2) the path to some directory. Currently this is typically set to a containing Eclipse project directory, for example, when JCasGen is called from the Component Descriptor Editor
> {quote}

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