How can i programmatically trigger the external annotator to execute : Intellij Plugin development

Hi,

For an intellij plugin project,

I am using an externalannotator instance in order to detect and report findings for an xml tag for an xml document. It is working great and shows up results on mouse over when i open the document

However i wanted to execute the externalannotator to be triggered programmatically ? Is there provision to do the same

Versions used:

id("org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm") version "1.7.10"
id("org.jetbrains.intellij") version "1.12.0"