From 939cbdf4662176507b0d8d7520ce3858a44f964b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Procter <j.procter@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:47:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-3829 look up column in FTS data

---
 src/jalview/fts/core/FTSRestRequest.java |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/jalview/fts/core/FTSRestRequest.java b/src/jalview/fts/core/FTSRestRequest.java
index 2d9eeb6..bf88d2d 100644
--- a/src/jalview/fts/core/FTSRestRequest.java
+++ b/src/jalview/fts/core/FTSRestRequest.java
@@ -188,4 +188,23 @@ public class FTSRestRequest
   {
     this.offSet = offSet;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * locate column given field name
+   * @param string - field name
+   * @return -1 if not located
+   */
+  public int getFieldIndex(String string)
+  {
+    int i=associatedSequence!=null ? 1 : 0;
+    for (FTSDataColumnI field:wantedFields)
+    {
+      if (field.getName().equals(string))
+      {
+        return i; 
+      }
+      i++;
+    }
+    return -1;
+  }
 }
-- 
1.7.10.2