Inconsistent API for engine and resource creation?

[José Tomás Atria]

Hello,

i just noticed that the method for creation of analysis engines and external resources is different.

For AE's, this works:

AnalysisEngineFactory.createEngineDescription(

   SomeEngine.class,SomeEngine.PARAM_BOOLEAN, true 

)

But for external resources, the same syntax fails with a ClassCastException

ExternalResourceFactory.createExternalResourceDescription(

    SomeResource.class, SomeResource.PARAM_BOOLEAN, true

)

Looking at the code, I see that ExternalResourceFactory.createExternalResourceDescription(String,Class<? extends Resource>,Object...), which is called by the method above, actually casts parameter values to String on line 177.

Why is this so? Wouldn't it be preferable to have a consistent interface for all component types?

Thanks!

jta

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[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

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