X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fws%2Fdbsources%2FEmblXmlSource.java;h=b2fb8081b0d74ee0155dadc25bf06824548e9277;hb=51728d3951398f9c12d7017c776953f17322cc68;hp=0236d441e5ca38fd16ed17bd492cfbb84131a370;hpb=db93a1adcbe0a4eaaf06e0a70ade0d6c5c1961c3;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
index 0236d44..b2fb808 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
- * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.9.0b2)
- * Copyright (C) 2015 The Jalview Authors
+ * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer ($$Version-Rel$$)
+ * Copyright (C) $$Year-Rel$$ The Jalview Authors
  * 
  * This file is part of Jalview.
  * 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public abstract class EmblXmlSource extends EbiFileRetrievedProxy
     {
       reply = dbFetch.fetchDataAsFile(
               emprefx.toLowerCase() + ":" + query.trim(), "display=xml",
-              ".xml");
+              "xml");
     } catch (Exception e)
     {
       stopQuery();
@@ -102,8 +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())
       {