[UIMA-2979] ConfigurableDataResource_impl/ConfigurableDataResourceSpecifier requires additional work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Labels: Resources
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Created: 07/Jun/13 22:12
• Updated: 02/Sep/16 17:41

Description

ConfigurableDataResource_impl appears to be stuck in a half-living state:

• there is no ConfigurableDataResource interface (UIMA usually has interfaces for such things)
• there is no factory method in the ResourceSpecifierFactory for a ConfigurableDataResourceSpecifier
• the "local cache" facility has never been implemented, there is only an unused "getLocalCache()" method

A good thing about the ConfigurableDataResourceSpecifier, though, is that it supports ResourceMetaData and the regular UIMA parameters (cf. UIMA-2978). Maybe it would be useful to pull up the ResourceMetaData support into the ResourceSpecifier.

uimaFIT uses the ConfigurableDataResourceSpecifier whenever an external resource is declared in conjunction with a SharedResourceObject.