public static List selectCovered()

in uimafit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/fit/util/CasUtil.java [633:666]

• 23 lines of code
• 7 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  public static List<AnnotationFS> selectCovered(CAS cas, Type type, int begin, int end) {

    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();

    // 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() >= begin) : "Illegal begin " + a.getBegin() + " in [" + begin + ".."
              + end + "]";

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

      list.add(a);
    }

    return list;
  }