Fixed qanaryMesssage null when first approach fails

Author: dschiese

qanary-component-QB-BirthDataWikidata/pom.xml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>eu.wdaqua.qanary.component</groupId>
 	<artifactId>qanary-component-QB-BirthDataWikidata</artifactId>
-	<version>3.4.2</version>
+	<version>3.4.3</version>
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>eu.wdaqua.qanary</groupId>
 		<artifactId>qa.qanarycomponent-parent</artifactId>

qanary-component-QB-BirthDataWikidata/src/main/java/eu/wdaqua/component/qb/birthdata/wikidata/BirthDataQueryBuilder.java

@@ -142,21 +142,21 @@ public QanaryMessage process(QanaryMessage myQanaryMessage) throws Exception {
 		this.myQuestion = myQanaryQuestion.getTextualRepresentation(); // get the question as String
 
 		// STEP 1-3 have two options
-
+		QanaryMessage qanaryMessageNew = myQanaryMessage;
 		// first, try to use a named entity annotation because it is more precise if it
 		// works, then stop
-		myQanaryMessage = this.processForExistingNamedEntity(myQanaryMessage);
-		if (myQanaryMessage != null) {
+		qanaryMessageNew = this.processForExistingNamedEntity(myQanaryMessage);
+		if (qanaryMessageNew != null) {
 			logger.info("Found a named entity annotation. Processing finished.");
-			return myQanaryMessage;
+			return qanaryMessageNew;
 		}
 
-        // second, let's try to find a firstname and lastname, if that works we stop 
-        myQanaryMessage = this.processForFirstNameAndLastName(myQanaryMessage);
-        if( myQanaryMessage != null ) {
-        	logger.info("Found firstname and lastname. Processing finished.");
-        	return myQanaryMessage;
-        }
+		// second, let's try to find a firstname and lastname, if that works we stop
+		qanaryMessageNew = this.processForFirstNameAndLastName(myQanaryMessage);
+		if( qanaryMessageNew != null ) {
+			logger.info("Found firstname and lastname. Processing finished.");
+			return qanaryMessageNew;
+		}
 
 		logger.warn("Nothing could be done here.");
 		return myQanaryMessage;