JAL-3143 comma-delimited feature attributes for alleles,

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

diff --git a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java
index 7a37c8a..5dc701d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblSeqProxy.java
@@ -915,10 +915,14 @@ public abstract class EnsemblSeqProxy extends EnsemblRestClient
 
   /**
    * Answers true if the feature type is either 'NMD_transcript_variant' or
-   * 'transcript' or one of its sub-types in the Sequence Ontology. This is
-   * needed because NMD_transcript_variant behaves like 'transcript' in Ensembl
+   * 'transcript' (or one of its sub-types in the Sequence Ontology). This is
+   * because NMD_transcript_variant behaves like 'transcript' in Ensembl
    * although strictly speaking it is not (it is a sub-type of
    * sequence_variant).
+   * <p>
+   * (This test was needed when fetching transcript features as GFF. As we are
+   * now fetching as JSON, all features have type 'transcript' so the check for
+   * NMD_transcript_variant is redundant. Left in for any future case arising.)
    * 
    * @param featureType
    * @return