refactored to decouple dependencies due to FileParse's derived classes

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / io / AppletFormatAdapter.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/AppletFormatAdapter.java b/src/jalview/io/AppletFormatAdapter.java
index b1952a9..5eb4d2b 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/io/AppletFormatAdapter.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/AppletFormatAdapter.java
@@ -463,6 +463,17 @@ public class AppletFormatAdapter
     return null;
   }
 
+  public static String checkProtocol(String file)
+  {
+    String protocol = FILE;
+  
+    if (file.indexOf("http:") > -1 || file.indexOf("file:") > -1)
+    {
+      protocol = URL;
+    }
+    return protocol;
+  }
+
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
     int i = 0;