adding an addView function to Annotator, with extra parameter.

Author: khashab2

core-utilities/src/main/java/edu/illinois/cs/cogcomp/annotation/Annotator.java

@@ -168,6 +168,15 @@ public final View getView(TextAnnotation ta) throws AnnotatorException {
         return ta.getView(viewName);
     }
 
+    /**
+     Add the content of the annotators to a given TextAnnotation object.
+     @param runtimeAttributes the parameters that might change the behavior of the annotator while after initialization and while running.
+     */
+    protected void addView(TextAnnotation ta,  ResourceManager runtimeAttributes) throws AnnotatorException {
+        logger.warn("This annotator does not accept run-time attributes. You have to run `addView() function without the attributes parameter. `");
+        addView(ta);
+    }
+
     /**
      * First, checks whether model is initialized, and calls initialize() if not. Then, calls
      * addView(). IMPORTANT: clients should always call getView().
@@ -182,7 +191,6 @@ private void lazyAddView(TextAnnotation ta) throws AnnotatorException {
         addView(ta);
     }
 
-
     /**
      * Can be used internally by {@link BasicAnnotatorService} to check for pre-requisites before
      * calling any single (external) {@link Annotator}.