/**
* Read some embl feature qualifiers from a stream into a QualifierVector object. The stream
* should contain qualifiers in this form:
*
* <PRE> /name1=value1/name2="value2"/name3=[value3] </PRE>
*
* @param in_stream the qualifiers are read from this stream
* @exception IOException thrown if there is a problem reading the qualifiers, such as end of
* file.
* @exception QualifierParseException Thrown if the format of the value String is not appropriate
* for a Qualifier with the given name. Each qualifier has a specific format for the value
* part which depends on the name, for example the value part of /codon_start qualifier must
* be a number: 1, 2 or 3.
* @return A Vector containing one Qualifier object for each name/value pair read from the stream.
*/
public static QualifierVector readQualifiers(
final Reader in_stream, final EntryInformation entry_information)
throws QualifierParseException, IOException {
QualifierVector return_vector = new QualifierVector();
BufferedReader buffered_reader = new BufferedReader(in_stream);
String name;
String value;
// loop until end of file
while ((name = StreamQualifier.readName(buffered_reader)) != null) {
// save one character in case the next char is not a '='
buffered_reader.mark(1);
final int next_char = buffered_reader.read();
if (next_char == -1) value = null;
else {
if (next_char == '=') value = StreamQualifier.readValue(buffered_reader);
else {
// this qualifier doesn't have a value
value = null;
buffered_reader.reset();
}
}
final Qualifier new_qualifier;
if (value == null) new_qualifier = new Qualifier(name);
else {
new_qualifier = StreamQualifier.makeStreamQualifier(name, value, entry_information);
}
return_vector.addQualifierValues(new_qualifier);
}
return return_vector;
}
