public interface FileFormatI
{
+ AlignmentFileI getReader(FileParse source) throws IOException;
- AlignmentFileI getAlignmentFile(String inFile, DataSourceType sourceType)
- throws IOException;
-
- // TODO can we get rid of one of these methods?
- AlignmentFileI getAlignmentFile(FileParse source) throws IOException;
-
- AlignmentFileI getAlignmentFile(AlignmentI al);
-
- AlignmentFileI getAlignmentFile();
+ AlignmentFileI getWriter(AlignmentI al);
boolean isComplexAlignFile();
/**
+ * Answers the display name of the file format (as for example shown in menu
+ * options). This name should not be locale (language) dependent.
+ */
+ String getName();
+
+ /**
* Returns a comma-separated list of file extensions associated with the
* format
*
/**
* Answers true if the format is one that Jalview can read. This implies that
- * the format provides implementations for getAlignmentFile(FileParse) and
- * getAlignmentFile(String, DataSourceType) which parse the data source for
- * sequence data.
+ * the format provides an implementation for getReader which can parse a data
+ * source for sequence data. Readable formats are included in the options in
+ * the open file dialogue.
*
* @return
*/
/**
* Answers true if the format is one that Jalview can write. This implies that
- * the object returned by getAlignmentFile provides an implementation of the
- * print() method.
+ * the object returned by getWriter provides an implementation of the print()
+ * method. Writable formats are included in the options in the Save As file
+ * dialogue, and the 'output to Textbox' option (if text format).
*
* @return
*/
boolean isTextFormat();
/**
- * Answers true if the file format is one that provides a 3D structure
+ * Answers true if the file format is one that provides 3D structure data
*
* @return
*/