[UIMA-2779] External resources and parameters should be mandatory by default

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0uimaFIT
• Component/s: uimaFIT
• Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Created: 30/Mar/13 16:13
• Updated: 30/Mar/13 16:57
• Resolved: 30/Mar/13 16:57

Description

REC: In my experience, in almost all cases, the parameters for components are mandatory, although the default in uimaFIT is that they are not mandatory. That means that most @ConfigurationParameter and @ExternalResource annotations are littered with "mandatory=true". It would be nice if we could change this in a future version of uimaFIT, e.g. in 2.0, since this is a non-compatible change.

Steven: I'd say I'm much more like 50/50 mandatory/defaulting in my own code when using @ConfigurationParameter. But I'd be okay with changing it.

See also: https://code.google.com/p/uimafit/issues/detail?id=72