[UIMA-2511] JCasGen fails to update descriptions in JavaDoc

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1SDK
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Created: 03/Dec/12 23:47
• Updated: 14/Jul/13 17:03
• Resolved: 13/Jul/13 17:54

Description

When I update the description field of features in the Eclipse Component Descriptor editor and run JCasGen, most of the time the descriptions for the types are not updated in the generated JCas files. The "Updated by JCasGen" timestamp is updated, but the JavaDoc on the getters and setters is not updated most of the time. I even thought that generating JavaDoc on setters/getters wasn't supported until I actually looked at the JCasGen source code.

Deleting the generated types and re-running JCasGen seems to help some times, but most of the time it just seems that it doesn't make a difference.

E.g., I added "lala" as a description on a type feature and successfully generate the JCas with "lala" ending up in the getter/setter JavaDoc. Now I remove "lala" from the description (it's empty now), delete the JCas files from disk and rerun JCasGen. In the freshly generated files, "lala" is still there.