/**
* Removes all annotations of type removeAnnotationType which are contained by annotations of type
* containerAnnotationType.
*
* @param cas
* @param containerAnnotationType
* @param removeAnnotationType
*/
public static void removeAnnotations(
CAS cas, AnnotationFS containerAnnotation, Type removeAnnotationType) {
FSIndex<AnnotationFS> allRemoveAnnotations = cas.getAnnotationIndex(removeAnnotationType);
ContainingConstraint containingConstraint = new ContainingConstraint(containerAnnotation);
Iterator<AnnotationFS> containingTokens =
cas.createFilteredIterator(allRemoveAnnotations.iterator(), containingConstraint);
Collection<AnnotationFS> removeAnnotations = new LinkedList<AnnotationFS>();
while (containingTokens.hasNext()) {
removeAnnotations.add(containingTokens.next());
}
for (Iterator<AnnotationFS> it = removeAnnotations.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
cas.removeFsFromIndexes(it.next());
}
}
