Merge branch 'releases/Release_2_10_4_Branch' into develop

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / util / MappingUtils.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java b/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java
index 5a26ed6..b552c21 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java
@@ -943,6 +943,34 @@ public final class MappingUtils
   }
 
   /**
+   * Answers true if range's start-end positions include those of queryRange,
+   * where either range might be in reverse direction, else false
+   * 
+   * @param range
+   *          a start-end range
+   * @param queryRange
+   *          a candidate subrange of range (start2-end2)
+   * @return
+   */
+  public static boolean rangeContains(int[] range, int[] queryRange)
+  {
+    if (range == null || queryRange == null || range.length != 2
+            || queryRange.length != 2)
+    {
+      /*
+       * invalid arguments
+       */
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    int min = Math.min(range[0], range[1]);
+    int max = Math.max(range[0], range[1]);
+  
+    return (min <= queryRange[0] && max >= queryRange[0]
+            && min <= queryRange[1] && max >= queryRange[1]);
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Removes the specified number of positions from the given ranges. Provided
    * to allow a stop codon to be stripped from a CDS sequence so that it matches
    * the peptide translation length.