[CTAKES-278] UMLS user and password should be validated

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: future enhancement
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: ctakes-dictionary-lookup
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chen Lin
• Created: 23/Dec/13 16:31
• Updated: 23/Jun/14 16:24
• Resolved: 23/Jun/14 16:24

Description

If the umls user name and password are not set properly, now the dictionary-lookup module will throw NullPointerException, which is not very informative. isValidUMLSUser should validate input and raise an informative exception instead.

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.net.URLEncoder.encode(URLEncoder.java:188)
at org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup.ae.UmlsDictionaryLookupAnnotator.isValidUMLSUser(UmlsDictionaryLookupAnnotator.java:87)
at org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup.ae.UmlsDictionaryLookupAnnotator.initialize(UmlsDictionaryLookupAnnotator.java:70)

Many thanks!