Export only selected annotations to file

Pamela Russell

• February 22, 2022 21:36

Hi,

I am developing a plugin that builds a new `DefaultNucleotideSequence` document with custom annotations and adds the document to the database. I would like to provide users with the capability to export selected annotations to a TSV file. Currently, they can export all annotations in the document via the "Annotations" tab. Is there a way to modify that behavior to export selected annotations only?

Thanks,

Pam

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• Official comment

  

  Tom Edwards

  • February 23, 2022 23:05

  Hi Pam,

  Unfortunately you've hit a limitation with our dev kit. Any selections within a document are not currently supported by Document Exporters. :(

  One possible workaround, would be to create a Document Operation and manually export all selected annotations from within the operation. Eg something like this:
  
  

  @Override
  public void performOperation(AnnotatedPluginDocument[] annotatedDocuments, ProgressListener progressListener, Options options, SequenceSelection sequenceSelection, OperationCallback callback) throws DocumentOperationException {
      List<SequenceSelection.SelectedAnnotation> selectedAnnotations = sequenceSelection.getAnnotations();
      // ...
      // Create a new file and write the selected annotations into it.
      // ...
  }

  Cheers,
  Tom

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