[UIMA-5584] uv3 shorten api names for getting 0-length arrays/lists

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0SDK-beta
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 21/Sep/17 21:26
• Updated: 28/Sep/17 13:56
• Resolved: 28/Sep/17 13:56

Description

There are new APIs to get shared (per CAS) instances of empty lists and arrays of various types.

These APIs are called getEmpty/xxxx/List|Array where xxxx can be blank or a type name part. (e.g. getEmptyFloatList).

These APIs are found in the CAS, the JCas, and on the various JCas classes for the type kinds (e.g., FloatList has a getEmptyList())

Improve things by shortening these APIs uniformly by dropping the "get". This will also align the style with how Java does this in its Collections class for empty instances.