[jira] [Created] (CTAKES-504) Add visibility into implicitly expected resource paths in ctakes-core FileLocator.class

["Reed Villanueva (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Reed Villanueva created CTAKES-504:
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             Summary: Add visibility into implicitly expected resource paths in ctakes-core FileLocator.class
                 Key: CTAKES-504
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-504
             Project: cTAKES
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: ctakes-core
            Reporter: Reed Villanueva
             Fix For: 4.0.1


In _/trunk/ctakes-core/src/main/java/org/apache/ctakes/core/resource/FileLocator.java_, the method _getFileSearchPaths_ makes certain implicit assumptions about where to look for resources if environment variable _CTAKES_HOME_ is not set. This can cause confusion about where resources should be placed in projects attempting to use ctakes library jars, since if they are not in these expected locations, the current errors may look like
{code:java}
Exception in thread "main" 06 Apr 2018 00:17:53 ERROR JdbcRareWordDictionary - Could not Connect to Dictionary sno_rx_16abTerms
org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException: Initialization of annotator class "org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup2.ae.DefaultJCasTermAnnotator" failed. (Descriptor: <unknown>){code}
Which does not inform that the problem is related to *where* the resources/ folder has been placed.

I propose adding an additional small bit of output text before the method returns, of the form:
{code:java}
LOGGER.info( String.format("Obtained search paths for resource %s:", location) );
for (String path : paths) {
  LOGGER.info(path);
}{code}
 

 



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