[TIKA-1654] Reset cTAKES CAS into CTAKESParser

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.10
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: patch
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Giuseppe Totaro
• Reporter: Giuseppe Totaro
• Created: 10/Jun/15 23:26
• Updated: 21/Jun/15 23:31
• Resolved: 21/Jun/15 23:31

Description

Using CTAKESParser from Tika Server, I noticed that an exception occurs when the CTAKESParser is used multiple times:

org.apache.uima.cas.CASRuntimeException: Data for Sofa feature setLocalSofaData() has already been set.

This is due to the CAS (Common Analysis System) used by CTAKESParser. The CAS, as the AE (AnalysisEngine), is a static field into CTAKESParser to make a sort of singleton.

By the way, An Analysis Engine is a cTAKES/UIMA component responsible for analyzing unstructured information, discovering and representing semantic content. An AnalysisEngine operates on an "analysis structure" (implemented by CAS).

It is highly recommended to reuse the CAS, but it has to be reset before the next run. The CTAKESUtils class (org.apache.tika.parser.ctakes) provides the reset method to release all resources held by both AnalysisEngine and CAS and then "destroy" them. This method prevents the CASRuntimeException error.

You can find in attachment the patch including two new methods (resetCAS and resetAE) to reset, but not to destroy, the CAS and the AnalysisEngine respectively.
By using only resetCAS, CTAKESParser can reuse both CAS and AE instead of building them again for each run.

Issue Links

• is related to: TIKA-1645 Extraction of biomedical information using CTAKESParser