public static List selectCovered()

in uimafit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/fit/util/CasUtil.java [535:603]
47 lines of code
14 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  public static List<AnnotationFS> selectCovered(CAS cas, Type type,
          AnnotationFS coveringAnnotation) {
    int begin = coveringAnnotation.getBegin();
    int end = coveringAnnotation.getEnd();

    List<AnnotationFS> list = new ArrayList<AnnotationFS>();

    // withSnapshotIterators() not needed here since we copy the FSes to a list anyway
    FSIterator<AnnotationFS> it = cas.getAnnotationIndex(type).iterator();

    // Try to seek the insertion point.
    it.moveTo(coveringAnnotation);

    // If the insertion point is beyond the index, move back to the last.
    if (!it.isValid()) {
      it.moveToLast();
      if (!it.isValid()) {
        return list;
      }
    }

    // Ignore type priorities by seeking to the first that has the same begin
    boolean moved = false;
    while (it.isValid() && (it.get()).getBegin() >= begin) {
      it.moveToPrevious();
      moved = true;
    }

    // If we moved, then we are now on one starting before the requested begin, so we have to
    // move one ahead.
    if (moved) {
      it.moveToNext();
    }

    // If we managed to move outside the index, start at first.
    if (!it.isValid()) {
      it.moveToFirst();
    }

    // Skip annotations whose start is before the start parameter.
    while (it.isValid() && (it.get()).getBegin() < begin) {
      it.moveToNext();
    }

    boolean strict = true;
    while (it.isValid()) {
      AnnotationFS a = it.get();
      // If the start of the current annotation is past the end parameter, we're done.
      if (a.getBegin() > end) {
        break;
      }
      it.moveToNext();
      if (strict && a.getEnd() > end) {
        continue;
      }

      assert (a.getBegin() >= coveringAnnotation.getBegin()) : "Illegal begin " + a.getBegin()
              + " in [" + coveringAnnotation.getBegin() + ".." + coveringAnnotation.getEnd() + "]";

      assert (a.getEnd() <= coveringAnnotation.getEnd()) : "Illegal end " + a.getEnd() + " in ["
              + coveringAnnotation.getBegin() + ".." + coveringAnnotation.getEnd() + "]";

      if (!a.equals(coveringAnnotation)) {
        list.add(a);
      }
    }

    return unmodifiableList(list);
  }