Re: [jira] [Commented] (UIMA-3969) Add JSON Serialization for CASs and UIMA Descriptors

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

On 8/29/2014 4:45 PM, Renaud Richardet (JIRA) wrote:
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> Renaud Richardet commented on UIMA-3969:
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> Thanks [~schor] for this new functionality. I have started a prototype at https://github.com/renaud/uima_mongo, it can write (serialize) to Mongo, but not read yet (deserialize). [~schor], do you plan to add this functionality?

The original use case for this was to enable consuming things as JSON for those
apps which needed that.  So I haven't started on deserialization.  You (and
others) are suggesting a new use case where this would be needed, so this will
likely be added to the queue of work to be done.

-Marshall
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>> Add JSON Serialization for CASs and UIMA Descriptors
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>>                 Key: UIMA-3969
>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-3969
>>             Project: UIMA
>>          Issue Type: New Feature
>>          Components: Core Java Framework
>>    Affects Versions: 2.6.0SDK
>>            Reporter: Marshall Schor
>>            Assignee: Marshall Schor
>>            Priority: Minor
>>             Fix For: 2.6.1SDK
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>> Recent trends toward moving things into the cloud motivated me to consider what a JSON serialization of the CAS and descriptor metadata (more particularly, type systems) might look like.
>> I've put up a Wiki page with some of the thoughts so far in this exploration, here:  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/UIMA/JSON+serialization+for+UIMA
>> I'm also fooling around with a proof-of-concept implementation, based on our current XMI serialization for the CAS, as well as our MetaDataObject_impl serialization for UIMA descriptors, in order to work out the details.  There are additional nits (like how to configure things) not yet worked out.
>> Comments and discussion appreciated; I've put this up as a Jira to record them together - but feel free to use email also for any comments you feel might be better being more ephemeral.
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