JAL-1665 refactored Sequence.getSequenceFeatures

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / datamodel / Sequence.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
index 96e469a..f4795f1 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/Sequence.java
@@ -326,13 +326,26 @@ public class Sequence implements SequenceI
   }
 
   /**
-   * DOCUMENT ME!
+   * Returns the sequence features (if any), looking first on the sequence, then
+   * on its dataset sequence, and so on until a non-null value is found (or
+   * none). This supports retrieval of sequence features stored on the sequence
+   * (as in the applet) or on the dataset sequence (as in the Desktop version).
    * 
-   * @return DOCUMENT ME!
+   * @return
    */
   public SequenceFeature[] getSequenceFeatures()
   {
-    return sequenceFeatures;
+    SequenceFeature[] features = sequenceFeatures;
+
+    SequenceI seq = this;
+    int count = 0; // failsafe against loop in sequence.datasetsequence...
+    while (features == null && seq.getDatasetSequence() != null
+            && count++ < 10)
+    {
+      seq = seq.getDatasetSequence();
+      features = ((Sequence) seq).sequenceFeatures;
+    }
+    return features;
   }
 
   public void addPDBId(PDBEntry entry)