[jira] [Updated] (UIMA-2830) Expose FSIterator via (J)CasUtil.select*() methods where applicable

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

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Richard Eckart de Castilho updated UIMA-2830:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.5.0uimaFIT)
                   3.0.0uimaFIT

> Expose FSIterator via (J)CasUtil.select*() methods where applicable
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>                 Key: UIMA-2830
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2830
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: uimaFIT
>            Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
>            Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.0.0uimaFIT
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> Some of the uimaFIT (J)CasUtil "select" methods work directly on an FSIndex or FSIterator. In those cases, it would be nice if the methods didn't just return a Collection, but some FSCollection<T> in which the iterator() method returns an FSIterator<T>.
> At least in those cases were an AnnotationIndex is used, it would be possible to actually return something that implements Collection<T> and FSIndex<T>, so it can be used in constructors like new ArrayList(...), in modern-style for loops, and for type-save access to the index. 
> In those cases were an FSIterator is used because the type searched for is not an annotation, the FSIndex<T> interface is not a good choice, because it contains several methods that cannot be implemented based only on FSIterator.
> So maybe two interfaces: FSCollection<T> based on FSIterator and AnnotationCollection<T> based on FSIndex/AnnotationIndex.
> This mainly exposes more details of UIMA AnnotationIndex via CasUtil. JCasUtil's select method doesn't make a different between FSes that inherit from AnnotationFS or not. Here, the only benefit is getting access to an FSIterator.



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