java.lang.IllegalArgumentException with OntoGazetteer

[pvk444]

Trying to load OntoGazetteer from Onto Tools 8.5 into GATE 8.6.1 with the "standard" list URL setting:

jar:file:/C:/Users/pvkoh/.m2/repository/uk/ac/gate/plugins/ontology-tools/8.5/ontology-tools-8.5.jar!/ANNIE/resources/gazetteer/lists.def

I get the following error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:567)
	at gate.creole.AbstractResource.setParameterValue(AbstractResource.java:236)
	at gate.creole.AbstractResource.setParameterValues(AbstractResource.java:276)
	at gate.creole.AbstractResource.setParameterValues(AbstractResource.java:438)
	at gate.Factory.createResource(Factory.java:324)
	at gate.gui.NewResourceDialog$4.run(NewResourceDialog.java:270)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:830)
gate.creole.ResourceInstantiationException: couldn't invoke set method for listsURL on gate.creole.gazetteer.OntoGazetteerImpl: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch
	at gate.creole.AbstractResource.setParameterValue(AbstractResource.java:241)
	at gate.creole.AbstractResource.setParameterValues(AbstractResource.java:276)
	at gate.creole.AbstractResource.setParameterValues(AbstractResource.java:438)
	at gate.Factory.createResource(Factory.java:324)
	at gate.gui.NewResourceDialog$4.run(NewResourceDialog.java:270)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:830)

As I am not familiar (yet) with the design and coding of GATE, all my other attempts failed similarly (although with different error messages). I tried in particular to copy the listURL from ANNIE Gazetteer (which itself works fine), i.e. :

creole://uk.ac.gate.plugins;annie;8.6/resources/gazetteer/lists.def

or to refer to lists.def directly after extracting the resources/gazetter folder from the anni jar file. However, none of these worked.

Lastly, I don't know whether ANNIE in

jar:file:/C:/Users/pvkoh/.m2/repository/uk/ac/gate/plugins/ontology-tools/8.5/ontology-tools-8.5.jar!/ANNIE/resources/gazetteer/lists.def

refers to an environment variable which I might have missed.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[greenwoodma]

Turns out this was a bug left over from when the plugin was updated to be maven based. It's closed via 8f7cf04
but you'll need to use version 8.6-SNAPSHOT or above of the plugin to get it to work.