[Bioperl-l] Compliance of Bio::Seq add_SeqFeature() method

[Fields, Christopher J]

Yeah, I think that should work.  We should probably clarify the reasoning a bit in FeatureHolderI if you haven't already updated it. 

Might be interesting to see what breaks (if anything…)

chris

On Mar 6, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Dave Messina wrote:

> Very nice! Thanks, Florent!
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> Dave
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 06:00, Florent Angly <florent.angly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/03/12 12:13, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
> Actually, I misread Florent's original post, I was thinking that FeatureHolderI was the outlier here, but it is Bio::Seq.  Yes, I think Bio::Seq is abusing the FeatureHolderI interface, it should just be for a single feature (it can safely ignore the 'EXPAND' option).  However, use of 'EXPAND' assumes the FeatureHolderI is also a Bio::RangeI (must have a start and end to expand), something that is not mentioned in the interface as a requirement and is not guaranteed, for instance Bio::Seq is not Bio::RangeI.
> Ok, I have:
> 1/ clarified in Bio::FeatureHolderI that there is no guarantee that 'EXPAND' will be honored
> 2/ made Bio::Seq comply to Bio::FeatureHolderI by accepting the 'EXPAND' keyword (but do nothing about it)
> 3/ deprecated the use of passing multiple features to add_SeqFeature() in Bio::Seq
> 4/ updated documentation and code that relied on passing multiple features
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> That should take care of the issue at hand. See this commit: https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/commit/a5bebe00c505fbf5279f5d717790ed36eefcc2b8
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> Note that there are still some modules (e.g. Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store, Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedFeature, Bio::SeqFeature::Lite, Bio::DB::SeqFeature, Bio::Search::Tiling::MapTileUtils) that have an add_SeqFeature() method that accepts an array of features but they are not Bio::FeatureHolderI, so that's ok. Maybe they should be Bio::FeatureHolderI but that's another story.
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> However, I have found that Bio::SimpleAlign is a Bio::FeatureHolderI and is not compliant. I fixed it here: https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/commit/29e0449d05f37c9c748aaaff8cfe596ca7c3d380
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> Florent
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