[UIMA-301] CAS APIs should make it easier to deal with arrays of unknown element type

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.1
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Adam P. Lally
• Created: 09/Feb/07 23:00
• Updated: 04/Dec/07 20:07
• Resolved: 04/Dec/07 20:07

Description

There are several places in tools where we need to display the contents of an FS, which could be an array. Currently we have to iterate over all possible primivie-typed arrays in order to access and display their elements.

What would have been nice is a common superinterface of all the
primitive array types, which defines a toStringArray() method. The
toStringArray() methods are already there on the impls, but there's no
superinterface that I can use to get at them.

See UIMA-40 and UIMA-77.