[Biojava-l] RestrictionEnzymeManager REBASE reader bug?

[mark.schreiber at novartis.com]

I guess the other question I would ask is, should it crash?

By modifying the file are you fundamentally changing the format? The 
NullPointerException seems to suggest that you inserted something that 
doesn't have a matching record (or some similar problem, I'm not familiar 
with REBASE).

Try taking a look into the RestrictionEnzymeManager code at the root of 
the exception to give you some clues what might be going wrong. It's hard 
to tell if this is actually a bug or if you have incorrectly modified the 
file.

- Mark





"Jesse" <jesse-t at chello.nl>
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        Subject:        [Biojava-l] RestrictionEnzymeManager REBASE reader bug?


Hi Mark,

With "crash" I mean an exception.

This one:
-------- Exception  ---------
Exception in thread "main" org.biojava.bio.BioError: Failed to read REBASE
data file
                 at
org.biojava.bio.molbio.RestrictionEnzymeManager.loadData(RestrictionEnzymeMa
nager.java:415)
                 at
org.biojava.bio.molbio.RestrictionEnzymeManager.<clinit>(RestrictionEnzymeMa
nager.java:136)
                 at RETools.printAllRE(RETools.java:32)
                 at RETools.main(RETools.java:15)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
                 at org.biojava.utils.SmallSet.contains(SmallSet.java:68)
                 at org.biojava.utils.SmallSet.add(SmallSet.java:81)
                 at
org.biojava.bio.molbio.RestrictionEnzymeManager.loadData(RestrictionEnzymeMa
nager.java:407)
                 ... 3 more
-------------------------

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP 2 [Version 5.1.2600]
Java:
java version "1.5.0_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_02-b09)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_02-b09, mixed mode, sharing)
BioJava: BioJava 1.4pre2

The problem I described happens when calling
RestrictionEnzymeManager.getAllEnzymes() on a modified REBASE file.
What I modified (as test) was only the name "<1>XmnI" to "<1>XmbnI" (line
35343 of REBASE format 31, version 506).

Sometimes the exception also occurs when removing some specific 
restriction
enzyme entries (from <1> to <8> including the trailing empty line).


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