[UIMA-1556] The LucasCasIndexer should be an Analysis Engine and not a CasConsumer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3S
• Fix Version/s: 2.3S
• Component/s: Sandbox-Lucas
• Assignee: Jörn Kottmann
• Reporter: Jörn Kottmann
• Created: 07/Sep/09 10:27
• Updated: 09/Sep/09 11:38
• Resolved: 09/Sep/09 11:38

Description

Right now the LucasCasIndexer is a CasConsumer, but it should be an AnalysisEngine to make reuse of the code to create a document
based on a specified configuration easy. With that change a base class could be created for AEs which need to process Lucene documents.
One use case for this is the prospective search AE (UIMA-1553).

Beside that, the UIMA documentation suggests to not longer use Cas Consumers.

If we do this change, it should be done before the 2.3.0 release, because it is not backward compatible.