[UIMA-465] Need getViewIterator() method to work with a variable number of views

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Eddie Epstein
• Reporter: Eddie Epstein
• Created: 21/Jun/07 17:24
• Updated: 26/Jul/07 18:14
• Resolved: 22/Jun/07 21:42

Description

Based on user feedback, a common design pattern is for an annotator to want to process a set of Views in a CAS. Currently user code can do this using getSofaIterator() and testing each SofaFS to see if it matches the requirement. A simpler approach is to have a new method:

Iterator getViewIterator(viewname)

where viewname represents a Sofa name prefix. As with Sofa mapping, this API would return all views with names matching viewname.*. Sofa mapping would be respected, so "viewname" could be mapped.