X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fws%2Fdbsources%2FEmblXmlSource.java;h=b2fb8081b0d74ee0155dadc25bf06824548e9277;hb=849ce08f4fdfc619cf1e2f45d6e97884ecac595f;hp=008522136f00a787cda134b3f3e0cfad4ea7c3ac;hpb=9fe87bd08ab29b6fe53364f387d7a2e3a8d39994;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
index 0085221..b2fb808 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ public abstract class EmblXmlSource extends EbiFileRetrievedProxy
     try
     {
       reply = dbFetch.fetchDataAsFile(
-              emprefx.toLowerCase() + ":" + query.trim(), "emblxml", null,
-              ".xml");
+              emprefx.toLowerCase() + ":" + query.trim(), "display=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())
       {