Jay, I agree. This does lead to reproducible unit tests, which helps us out in the long term.
Kim Ebert 1.801.669.7342 Perfect Search Corp http://www.perfectsearchcorp.com/ On 10/06/2014 05:38 PM, jay vyas wrote: > Im not a ctakes expert by any means, but in general, I like that idea.... > predictable and deterministic ordering of mapped elements almost always > leads to less buggy applications. > As groovy has shown (LinkedHashMap is the default data structure and its > much easier imo to get reproducible groovy unit tests etc b/c of that). > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Bruce Tietjen < > bruce.tiet...@perfectsearchcorp.com> wrote: > >> Since I started working with cTakes some time ago, I have found it >> difficult to compare the output between subsequent runs on the same files >> because annotations are often assigned different IDs, are listed in >> different order, etc. >> >> One area that seems to be a cause for at least some of these differences is >> the common use of HashMap where enumerating the contents is not guaranteed >> to return items in the same order they were added. >> >> I would like to work towards addressing this issue by changing those areas >> of the code where it matters to use a LinkedHashMap instead. >> >> Is this something the community would be interested in and find helpful? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bruce Tietjen >> Perfect Search Corp. >> > >
