Merge branch 'develop' into releases/Release_2_10_3_Branch

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / ext / ensembl / EnsemblFeatures.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblFeatures.java b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblFeatures.java
index 7570822..cb6f548 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblFeatures.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblFeatures.java
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class EnsemblFeatures extends EnsemblRestClient
   public AlignmentI getSequenceRecords(String query) throws IOException
   {
     // TODO: use a vararg String... for getSequenceRecords instead?
-    List<String> queries = new ArrayList<String>();
+    List<String> queries = new ArrayList<>();
     queries.add(query);
     FileParse fp = getSequenceReader(queries);
     if (fp == null || !fp.isValid())
@@ -109,9 +109,17 @@ class EnsemblFeatures extends EnsemblRestClient
     urlstring.append("?content-type=text/x-gff3");
 
     /*
+     * specify object_type=gene in case is shared by transcript and/or protein;
+     * currently only fetching features for gene sequences;
+     * refactor in future if needed to fetch for transcripts
+     */
+    urlstring.append("&").append(OBJECT_TYPE).append("=")
+            .append(OBJECT_TYPE_GENE);
+
+    /*
      * specify  features to retrieve
      * @see http://rest.ensembl.org/documentation/info/overlap_id
-     * could make the list a configurable entry in jalview.properties
+     * could make the list a configurable entry in .jalview_properties
      */
     for (EnsemblFeatureType feature : featuresWanted)
     {