Some UIMA configuration parameters are not validated

[Burn Lewis <bu...@gmail.com>]

Code added in 2.4.1 to log configuration parameter values and their origins
has exposed an old bug whereby group parameter settings are not checked if
any non-group parameters have settings.  At least one existing application
has invalid group parameter settings that were not detected prior to 2.4.1
and is now failing, so we need a way to support such applications until
their invalid settings can be corrected.  (see Jira UIMA-3123)

Some choices are:
1) Continue omitting the check in 2.4.1 and merely log the error
2) Only omit the check if a special environmental variable is set, e.g.
UIMA240Compatible=true

I prefer #2 as I suspect the problem is rare (only for descriptors with
settings for both group & non-group parameters with errors in the group
values)

~Burn

Re: Some UIMA configuration parameters are not validated

[Burn Lewis <bu...@gmail.com>]

Since at least one customer has such invalid descriptors that UIMA 2.3
falsely accepts, we have implemented #1 in 2.4.2.  The validation
terminates on the first error so it must be corrected before others will be
found.  In a later release we will implement #2.

~Burn


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Burn Lewis <bu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Code added in 2.4.1 to log configuration parameter values and their
> origins has exposed an old bug whereby group parameter settings are not
> checked if any non-group parameters have settings.  At least one existing
> application has invalid group parameter settings that were not detected
> prior to 2.4.1 and is now failing, so we need a way to support such
> applications until their invalid settings can be corrected.  (see Jira
> UIMA-3123)
>
> Some choices are:
> 1) Continue omitting the check in 2.4.1 and merely log the error
> 2) Only omit the check if a special environmental variable is set, e.g.
> UIMA240Compatible=true
>
> I prefer #2 as I suspect the problem is rare (only for descriptors with
> settings for both group & non-group parameters with errors in the group
> values)
>
> ~Burn
>
>