JAL-653 refactor sequence interface to separate concrete sequence data methods from...

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / datamodel / SequenceI.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceI.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceI.java
index a9a7589..f69c8b6 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceI.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/SequenceI.java
@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ import java.util.Vector;
 import fr.orsay.lri.varna.models.rna.RNA;
 
 /**
- * DOCUMENT ME!
+ * Methods for manipulating a sequence, its metadata and related annotation in
+ * an alignment or dataset.
  * 
  * @author $author$
  * @version $Revision$
  */
-public interface SequenceI
+public interface SequenceI extends ASequenceI
 {
   /**
    * Set the display name for the sequence
@@ -134,12 +135,13 @@ public interface SequenceI
   public char[] getSequence(int start, int end);
 
   /**
-   * create a new sequence object from start to end of this sequence
+   * create a new sequence object with a subsequence of this one but sharing the
+   * same dataset sequence
    * 
    * @param start
-   *          int index for start position
+   *          int index for start position (base 0, inclusive)
    * @param end
-   *          int index for end position
+   *          int index for end position (base 0, exclusive)
    * 
    * @return SequenceI
    * @note implementations may use getSequence to get the sequence data
@@ -265,14 +267,14 @@ public interface SequenceI
    * @param id
    *          DOCUMENT ME!
    */
-  public void setPDBId(Vector ids);
+  public void setPDBId(Vector<PDBEntry> ids);
 
   /**
-   * DOCUMENT ME!
+   * Returns a list
    * 
    * @return DOCUMENT ME!
    */
-  public Vector getPDBId();
+  public Vector<PDBEntry> getPDBId();
 
   /**
    * add entry to the vector of PDBIds, if it isn't in the list already