[jira] [Updated] (UIMA-3913) JCasUtil methods could be more generic

["Hugo Mougard (JIRA)" <de...@uima.apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-3913?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Hugo Mougard updated UIMA-3913:
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    Summary: JCasUtil methods could be more generic  (was: (J)CasUtil methods could be more generic)

> JCasUtil methods could be more generic
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: UIMA-3913
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-3913
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: uimaFIT
>            Reporter: Hugo Mougard
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.2.0uimaFIT
>
>
> As an example, the method {{indexCovering}} of {{JCasUtil}} has signature:
> {code}
> public static <T extends Annotation,S extends Annotation> Map<T, Collection<S>> indexCovering(
>   JCas jCas,
>   Class<T> type,
>   Class<S> coveringType)
> {code}
> With this signature, the following code is invalid ({{RevisedSentence}} is a subclass of {{Sentence}}):
> {code}
> Map<RevisedWords, Collection<Sentence>> indexRevised
>                 = JCasUtil.indexCovering(
>                         revised,
>                         RevisedWords.class,
>                         RevisedSentence.class);
> {code}
> This somewhat prevents users of {{JCasUtil}} from benefiting of all the OOP pluses of the UIMA TS.
> Here would be a signature that would maybe better fit the problem:
> {code}
> public static <T extends Annotation, S extends Annotation> Map<T, Collection<S>> indexCovering(
>   JCas jCas,
>   Class<? extends T> type,
>   Class<? extends S> coveringType)
> {code}



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