JAL-3121 slightly cleaner parsing of, and unit test for, map attributes

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / io / gff / Gff3Helper.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java b/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
index c7e1d7a..1ef8848 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ import java.util.Map;
  */
 public class Gff3Helper extends GffHelperBase
 {
+  public static final String ALLELES = "alleles";
+
   protected static final String TARGET = "Target";
 
   protected static final String ID = "ID";
@@ -348,15 +350,6 @@ public class Gff3Helper extends GffHelperBase
   }
 
   /**
-   * Return '=' as the name-value separator used in column 9 attributes.
-   */
-  @Override
-  protected char getNameValueSeparator()
-  {
-    return '=';
-  }
-
-  /**
    * Modifies the default SequenceFeature in order to set the Target sequence id
    * as the description
    */
@@ -399,7 +392,7 @@ public class Gff3Helper extends GffHelperBase
       /*
        * Ensembl returns dna variants as 'alleles'
        */
-      desc = StringUtils.listToDelimitedString(attributes.get("alleles"),
+      desc = StringUtils.listToDelimitedString(attributes.get(ALLELES),
               ",");
     }
 
@@ -422,6 +415,11 @@ public class Gff3Helper extends GffHelperBase
       desc = (String) sf.getValue(ID);
     }
 
+    /*
+     * and decode comma, equals, semi-colon as required by GFF3 spec
+     */
+    desc = StringUtils.urlDecode(desc, GFF_ENCODABLE);
+
     return desc;
   }
 }