[Biojava-l] Last change to sequence package

[Matthew Pocock]

Oops - forgot to mention that this will change the GFF API slightly. The gff
strand constants (as ints) would be dropped, and replaced by the
StrandedFeature constants. This way there is only one instance of the strand
concept in BioJava.

Scream now or I will change it thursday morning.

Matthew Pocock wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The last change that I would like to make to the sequence package is to
> replace
>
> int StrandedFeature.POSITIVE
> int StrandedFeature.NEGATIVE
>
> with identicaly named StrandedFeature.Strand instances. This will make
> them type-safe enums so you won't be able to do silly things like set
> the strand to -17. This change will cascade through the StrandedTemplate
> class and also the GFF package, so that there is a global model of
> strandedness.
>
> Hopefully, this should be a fix-by-recompiling change, unless you
> explicitly set strands to +1 or -1 (which is exactly the sort of API
> abuse that I wish to prevent).
>
> Comments or flames to the list/me as always
>
> Matthew
>
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