JAL-2110 JAL-1705 handle not found (400) better

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / ext / ensembl / EnsemblRestClient.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java
index f8cd0d6..11a869e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java
@@ -208,6 +208,11 @@ abstract class EnsemblRestClient extends EnsemblSequenceFetcher
     URL url = getUrl(ids);
   
     BufferedReader reader = getHttpResponse(url, ids);
+    if (reader == null)
+    {
+      // request failed
+      return null;
+    }
     FileParse fp = new FileParse(reader, url.toString(), "HTTP_POST");
     return fp;
   }
@@ -256,9 +261,8 @@ abstract class EnsemblRestClient extends EnsemblSequenceFetcher
        * note: a GET request for an invalid id returns an error code e.g. 415
        * but POST request returns 200 and an empty Fasta response 
        */
-      throw new IOException(
-              "Response code was not 200. Detected response was "
-                      + responseCode);
+      System.err.println("Response code " + responseCode + " for " + url);
+      return null;
     }
     // get content
     InputStream response = connection.getInputStream();