From e4fe46502d641a228ee4877d2a5a8443eb75f189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gmungoc <g.m.carstairs@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 14:13:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-2543 identify as JSON before HTML

---
 src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
index 035c1fa..be0df21 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
@@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ public class IdentifyFile
           // read as a FASTA (probably)
           break;
         }
+        if (data.indexOf("{\"") > -1)
+        {
+          reply = FileFormat.Json;
+          break;
+        }
         int lessThan = data.indexOf("<");
         if ((lessThan > -1)) // possible Markup Language data i.e HTML,
                              // RNAML, XML
@@ -291,11 +296,6 @@ public class IdentifyFile
           }
         }
 
-        if (data.indexOf("{\"") > -1)
-        {
-          reply = FileFormat.Json;
-          break;
-        }
         if ((data.length() < 1) || (data.indexOf("#") == 0))
         {
           lineswereskipped = true;
-- 
1.7.10.2