From: James Procter <j.procter@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 13:42:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: JAL-4221 update description when transferring annotation and no description already set
X-Git-Tag: Release_2_11_4_0~244
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd886ae669962ea7fff5fb46627b3f84e77d295d;p=jalview.git

JAL-4221 update description when transferring annotation and no description already set
---

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
index 32d295a..5bb55e5 100755
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
@@ -1754,6 +1754,13 @@ public class Sequence extends ASequence implements SequenceI
       transferAnnotation(entry.getDatasetSequence(), mp);
       return;
     }
+    // transfer from entry to sequence
+    // if entry has a description and sequence doesn't, then transfer
+    if (entry.getDescription()!=null && (description==null || description.trim().length()==0))
+    {
+      description = entry.getDescription();
+    }
+    
     // transfer any new features from entry onto sequence
     if (entry.getSequenceFeatures() != null)
     {
diff --git a/test/jalview/datamodel/SequenceTest.java b/test/jalview/datamodel/SequenceTest.java
index 344d74d..7bbb9f3 100644
--- a/test/jalview/datamodel/SequenceTest.java
+++ b/test/jalview/datamodel/SequenceTest.java
@@ -2315,8 +2315,16 @@ public class SequenceTest
   {
     Sequence origSeq = new Sequence("MYSEQ", "THISISASEQ");
     Sequence toSeq = new Sequence("MYSEQ", "THISISASEQ");
+    origSeq.setDescription("DESCRIPTION");
     origSeq.addDBRef(new DBRefEntry("UNIPROT", "0", "Q12345", null, true));
+
+    toSeq.transferAnnotation(origSeq, null);
+    assertEquals("DESCRIPTION",toSeq.getDescription());
+    toSeq = new Sequence("MYSEQ", "THISISASEQ");
+    toSeq.setDescription("unchanged");
     toSeq.transferAnnotation(origSeq, null);
+    assertEquals("unchanged",toSeq.getDescription());
+    
     assertTrue(toSeq.getDBRefs().size() == 1);
 
     assertTrue(toSeq.getDBRefs().get(0).isCanonical());