[Biojava-dev] Feature Templates

[Schreiber, Mark]

Either option sounds OK.
 
I'm not sure why they are not reusable. The bowels of the feature machinery are a dark and scarey place. My preference would be that they can be reused but if they cannot then an exception (or at least some strong documentation) would be the way to go.
 
Hopefully Thomas or Matthew can shed some light on why Feature templates behaive this way.
 
- Mark

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Len Trigg [mailto:len at reeltwo.com] 
	Sent: Fri 5/09/2003 1:47 p.m. 
	To: Schreiber, Mark 
	Cc: biojava-dev 
	Subject: Re: [Biojava-dev] Feature Templates
	
	

	Mark Schreiber wrote:
	> The "standard" way to "reuse" a template is to make a feature with the template and then generate another template from that feature.
	> 
	> See http://www.biojava.org/docs/bj_in_anger/feature.htm for an example.
	> 
	> This is not really reuse, you are basically copying the template but the effect is the same.
	
	I'm not too worried about how to achieve the affect, more how to avoid
	the misuse (by people who don't know better ;-)) of the template
	object. I think that either it should be valid to reuse the template
	objects themselves, or they should somehow be marked as unusable by
	the createFeature process, so that any attempt to reuse them results
	in an exception being thrown. What say you?
	
	Cheers,
	Len.
	


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