Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Open
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Priority:
Blocker
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: Command Line Interface, file format issue, gui
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Labels:None
Description
Add CLI options and enhance the GUI to provide a specific file format to the FileLoader logic, circumventing the use of jalview.io.Identify to determine which parser to use.
Could be implemented as:
--open=<file> --<format subvalue>
In gui mode, the dropdown should configure which parser is used first.
Jalview could also look at the extension first to to work out which parser, rather than resort to IdentifyFile.
UX improvements will be needed to allow a different parser to be chosen if the import doesn't work or doesn't look as desired.
Could be implemented as:
--open=<file> --<format subvalue>
In gui mode, the dropdown should configure which parser is used first.
Jalview could also look at the extension first to to work out which parser, rather than resort to IdentifyFile.
UX improvements will be needed to allow a different parser to be chosen if the import doesn't work or doesn't look as desired.