From ca5d8d9fcaa5ad7b7e495112e796ef1c109baabe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gmungoc <g.m.carstairs@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:51:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-1705 take feature ID for description if nothing better
 found

---
 src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java b/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
index d29645b..bd34d3c 100644
--- a/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
@@ -393,6 +393,15 @@ public class Gff3Helper extends GffHelperBase
     {
       desc = StringUtils.listToDelimitedString(attributes.get("Name"), ",");
     }
+
+    /*
+     * if the above fails, try ID
+     */
+    if (desc == null)
+    {
+      desc = (String) sf.getValue(ID);
+    }
+
     return desc;
   }
 }
-- 
1.7.10.2