/*
 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.4)
 * Copyright (C) 2008 AM Waterhouse, J Procter, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
 */
package jalview.ws.dbsources;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;

import com.stevesoft.pat.Regex;

import jalview.datamodel.AlignmentI;
import jalview.ws.seqfetcher.DbSourceProxyImpl;

public abstract class EbiFileRetrievedProxy extends DbSourceProxyImpl
{

  /**
   * temp path to retrieved file
   */
  protected String file = null;

  public StringBuffer getRawRecords()
  {
    if (file == null)
      return null;
    StringBuffer bf = null;
    try
    {
      File f = new File(file);
      if (f.exists())
      {
        bf = new StringBuffer();
        BufferedReader breader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));
        String line = null;
        while (breader.ready() && (line = breader.readLine()) != null)
        {
          bf.append(line);
        }
        breader.close();
      }
    } catch (Exception e)
    {
      System.err.println("Warning: problems reading temp file " + file);
      return null;
    }
    return bf;
  }

}