some tests for document editing -- this is a work in progress that mostly documents the current behaviour rather than testing the desired behaviour (at least partly as we don't always know what the desired behaviour should be).

Author: greenwoodma

src/test/java/gate/corpora/TestDocumentEdit.java

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+package gate.corpora;
+
+import static gate.Utils.*;
+
+import gate.Annotation;
+import gate.Document;
+import gate.Factory;
+import gate.Gate;
+import junit.framework.Test;
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+import junit.framework.TestSuite;
+
+/**
+ * Editing documents in GATE is a bit of a nightmare given all the possible ways
+ * an edit could interact with existing annotations already covering the text.
+ * This test suite attempts to test some of these. In some cases assert
+ * statements have been commented out where behaviour doesn't match what we
+ * would expect (i.e. the test is broken) so that the tests continue to pass
+ * while we find the time to work through all options properly.
+ * 
+ * This class should currently serve more like documentation of how things
+ * currently are rather than tests to prove it works as it should; at least
+ * partly as we are yet to properly define how some things should work!
+ */
+public class TestDocumentEdit extends TestCase {
+
+	public TestDocumentEdit(String name) {
+		super(name);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void setUp() throws Exception {
+		if (!Gate.isInitialised())
+			Gate.init();
+	}
+
+	public static Test suite() {
+		return new TestSuite(TestDocumentEdit.class);
+	}
+
+	public void testEdit() throws Exception {
+
+		// let's start with a simple document...
+		Document doc = Factory.newDocument("I am a happy person");
+
+		// and annotation the emotion word
+		Integer id = doc.getAnnotations().add(7L, 12L, "Emotion", Factory.newFeatureMap());
+
+		// check the annotation we added exists at the right span
+		Annotation emotion = doc.getAnnotations().get(id);
+		assertNotNull(emotion);
+		assertEquals("happy", stringFor(doc, emotion));
+		assertEquals(7, emotion.getStartNode().getOffset().longValue());
+		assertEquals(12, emotion.getEndNode().getOffset().longValue());
+
+		// we replace the entire span with new text. Currently we know this causes the
+		// annotation to disappaear so that's what we test for, although it may actually
+		// be preferable to keep the annotation in a case such as this
+		doc.edit(7L, 12L, new DocumentContentImpl("sad"));
+		assertEquals("I am a sad person", doc.getContent().toString());
+		emotion = doc.getAnnotations().get(id);
+		assertNull(emotion);
+
+		// add the annotation back over the emotion word and check it's correct
+		id = doc.getAnnotations().add(7L, 10L, "Emotion", Factory.newFeatureMap());
+		emotion = doc.getAnnotations().get(id);
+		assertNotNull(emotion);
+		assertEquals("sad", stringFor(doc, emotion));
+		assertEquals(7, emotion.getStartNode().getOffset().longValue());
+		assertEquals(10, emotion.getEndNode().getOffset().longValue());
+
+		// now replace the end of the span (i.e. don't replace the first character).
+		// This annotion end should adjust to fit the new text
+		doc.edit(8L, 10L, new DocumentContentImpl("miley"));
+		assertEquals("I am a smiley person", doc.getContent().toString());
+		emotion = doc.getAnnotations().get(id);
+		assertNotNull(emotion);
+		// unfortunately the end of the annotation is now in completely the wrong place.
+		// This is because the node at the end of the annotation is moved to be at the
+		// beginning of the edit (a special case where the firstNode is moved) prior to
+		// then being repositioned correctly. That first move means the repositioning is
+		// then wrong, so we comment out the asserts for now
+		// assertEquals("smiley",stringFor(doc,emotion)); assertEquals(7,
+		// emotion.getStartNode().getOffset().longValue()); assertEquals(13,
+		// emotion.getEndNode().getOffset().longValue());
+
+		// now we replace the beginning of the span of the annotation (i.e. not the last
+		// character). In this case I'd expect the annotation to remain and adjust (just
+		// as it did with editing the end of the span) but...
+		doc.edit(7L, 12L, new DocumentContentImpl("happ"));
+		assertEquals("I am a happy person", doc.getContent().toString());
+		emotion = doc.getAnnotations().get(id);
+		// ...instead it disappears entirely. This is again because the firstNode is moved
+		// to the beginning of the span, this time that results in a zero length
+		// annotation which is then removed, before the end position is corrected, so
+		// again we comment out the assert statements.
+		// assertNotNull(emotion); assertEquals("happy",stringFor(doc,emotion));
+		// assertEquals(7, emotion.getStartNode().getOffset().longValue());
+		// assertEquals(12, emotion.getEndNode().getOffset().longValue());
+	}
+}