Merge branch 'releases/Release_2_10_0_Branch'

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / ws / dbsources / EmblXmlSource.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
index 0236d44..d185d12 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
@@ -102,8 +102,13 @@ public abstract class EmblXmlSource extends EbiFileRetrievedProxy
       }
     }
 
+    /*
+     * invalid accession gets a reply with no <entry> elements, text content of
+     * EmbFile reads something like (e.g.) this ungrammatical phrase
+     * Entry: <acc> display type is either not supported or entry is not found.
+     */
     List<SequenceI> peptides = new ArrayList<SequenceI>();
-    if (efile != null)
+    if (efile != null && efile.getEntries() != null)
     {
       for (EmblEntry entry : efile.getEntries())
       {