org.biojava.bio.program.formats
Class FormatTools
java.lang.Object
org.biojava.bio.program.formats.FormatTools
public class FormatTools
- extends Object
Method Summary |
static Format |
getFormat(String formatName)
Attempt to find aformat for a format identifer string. |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
EC_FROM_STRING
public static final ChangeTable.Changer EC_FROM_STRING
getFormat
public static Format getFormat(String formatName)
throws BioException
- Attempt to find aformat for a format identifer string.
The string will be resolved in the following way:
- Treat the name as an LSID and search for a format class with that
LSID.
- Load a class of that name
- Load a class in the package
org.biojava.bio.program.formats
with that name
- Load a class in that package after replacing each '.' in the name with
"$" so that a search is made of inner classes.
It is not specified if the format returned is a new instance or not.
This method uses the service providor framework to find format providers.
If you add formats to the core biojava distribution, you must add the
class name to the file biojava-live/resources/META-INF/services/org.biojava.bio.program.formats.Format
/ If you implement formats and
place them in your own .jar files, you should put the class name in a
similarly named file in your jar. This should mean that the format becomes
automatically registered with the system.
- Parameters:
formatName
- the Stirng to use to find the format name
- Returns:
- a Format for that name
- Throws:
BioException
- if the format could not be resolved for some reason