X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fws%2Fdbsources%2FEmblXmlSource.java;h=b1395745ccc8539752d2279ce038bf5f89e2ceed;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Freleases%2FRelease_2_10_0_Branch;hp=b71f032b5cf7f9abbe563561ab05d36914958a01;hpb=5071850e8470077a8ac2bdc6a53908c70ad5526d;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
index b71f032..b139574 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ public abstract class EmblXmlSource extends EbiFileRetrievedProxy
     {
       reply = dbFetch.fetchDataAsFile(
               emprefx.toLowerCase() + ":" + query.trim(), "display=xml",
-              null,
               ".xml");
     } catch (Exception e)
     {
@@ -103,8 +102,13 @@ public abstract class EmblXmlSource extends EbiFileRetrievedProxy
       }
     }
 
+    /*
+     * invalid accession gets a reply with no <entry> elements, text content of
+     * EmbFile reads something like (e.g.) this ungrammatical phrase
+     * Entry: <acc> display type is either not supported or entry is not found.
+     */
     List<SequenceI> peptides = new ArrayList<SequenceI>();
-    if (efile != null)
+    if (efile != null && efile.getEntries() != null)
     {
       for (EmblEntry entry : efile.getEntries())
       {