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.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: problens reading temp file "+file);
      return null;
    }
    return bf;
  }

}