[UIMA-242] Migration Tool creating unnecessary casts of CAS to CAS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Tools
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 29/Jan/07 16:11
• Updated: 05/Dec/07 11:50
• Resolved: 15/Feb/07 16:58

Description

Old code had things like:

TCAS tcas = (TCAS) jcasType.jcas.getCas();

are converted to

CAS tcas = (CAS) jcasType.jcas.getCas();

which cause a warning saying there's an unnecessary cast from CAS to CAS.

Another case: ((TCAS)jcas.getCas()).getAnnotationIndex(...