Merge branch 'task/JAL-3763_newDatasetForCds' into merge/develop_task/JAL-3763_newDat...

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / util / MappingUtils.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java b/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java
index 1e8c8d7..c8b5190 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/MappingUtils.java
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@
  */
 package jalview.util;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 import jalview.analysis.AlignmentSorter;
 import jalview.api.AlignViewportI;
 import jalview.bin.Cache;
@@ -41,13 +48,6 @@ import jalview.datamodel.Sequence;
 import jalview.datamodel.SequenceGroup;
 import jalview.datamodel.SequenceI;
 
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
 /**
  * Helper methods for manipulations involving sequence mappings.
  * 
@@ -1018,4 +1018,25 @@ public final class MappingUtils
       }
     }
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Converts a list of {@code start-end} ranges to a single array of
+   * {@code start1, end1, start2, ... } ranges
+   * 
+   * @param ranges
+   * @return
+   */
+  public static int[] rangeListToArray(List<int[]> ranges)
+  {
+    int rangeCount = ranges.size();
+    int[] result = new int[rangeCount * 2];
+    int j = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < rangeCount; i++)
+    {
+      int[] range = ranges.get(i);
+      result[j++] = range[0];
+      result[j++] = range[1];
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
 }