[Biojava-dev] Proposed change to RichFormat interface

[mark.schreiber at novartis.com]

Hi all -

I would like to propose a change  to the RichFormat interface. I think we 
should do this now as we haven't done a stable biojavax roll out yet so 
interface 
changes should still be allowed. The additional methods would be:

public String currentLine();
public int currentLineNumber();

This would make debugging a lot easier, it would also make construction of 
a RichSeqIOListener that logs and debugs much easier. I was trying to do 
this a while back. I started a background process that parsed 6GB of 
genbank records looking for records that failed. It worked ok but would be 

much better with the ability to query the RichFormat in the above way. We 
might even be able to make it  a utility that people could run on suspect 
files and generate standard bug reports to make it easier for us to debug 
the parser code.

What do people think??
- Mark