JAL-1367 promote the existing representative sequence attribute to SequenceCollectionI
[jalview.git] / src / jalview / datamodel / SequenceCollectionI.java
index c5cee01..95afb3d 100644 (file)
@@ -26,7 +26,21 @@ public interface SequenceCollectionI
 
   List<SequenceI> getSequences(
           Map<SequenceI, SequenceCollectionI> hiddenReps);
-
   int getWidth();
-
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @return true if getSeqrep doesn't return null
+   */
+  boolean hasSeqrep();
+  /**
+   * get the reference or representative sequence within this collection
+   * @return null or the current reference sequence
+   */
+  SequenceI getSeqrep();
+  /**
+   * set the reference or representative sequence for this collection. 
+   * Reference is assumed to be present within the collection.
+   * @return
+   */
+  void setSeqrep(SequenceI refseq);
 }