Please explain.

Currently, annots.xml points at files stored under the directory where it is located. It could support absolute URLs, potentially to other sites. This makes Quickload more of a catalog, rather than just a collection of files.

I like this a lot.

Implemented in trunk version 10908.

I've created quickload server for testing: http://www.zren.me/quickload

just tried to add this quickload and got the following error (I might have put a space at the end of the server name....)

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.util.GeneralUtils.stripEndings(GeneralUtils.java:72)
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.parsers.FileTypeHolder.getFileTypeHandlerForURI(FileTypeHolder.java:442)
at com.affymetrix.igb.viewmode.MapViewModeHolder.getAutoloadFactory(MapViewModeHolder.java:118)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.getTrack(SeqMapView.java:831)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.AltSpliceSeqMapView.getTrack(AltSpliceSeqMapView.java:73)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.TrackView.addAnnotationGlyphs(TrackView.java:230)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.TrackView.addTracks(TrackView.java:153)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.addAnnotationTracks(SeqMapView.java:1121)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.addGlyphs(SeqMapView.java:894)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.setAnnotatedSeq(SeqMapView.java:727)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.AltSpliceSeqMapView.setAnnotatedSeq(AltSpliceSeqMapView.java:287)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.setAnnotatedSeq(SeqMapView.java:652)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.AltSpliceSeqMapView.setAnnotatedSeq(AltSpliceSeqMapView.java:56)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.setAnnotatedSeq(SeqMapView.java:639)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.AltSpliceSeqMapView.sliceAndDiceNow(AltSpliceSeqMapView.java:255)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.AltSpliceSeqMapView.mapRefresh(AltSpliceSeqMapView.java:175)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.setAnnotatedSeq(SeqMapView.java:805)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.SeqMapView.setAnnotatedSeq(SeqMapView.java:652)
at com.affymetrix.igb.view.load.GeneralLoadUtils$2.process(GeneralLoadUtils.java:707)
at javax.swing.SwingWorker$3.run(SwingWorker.java:394)
at sun.swing.AccumulativeRunnable.run(AccumulativeRunnable.java:95)
at javax.swing.SwingWorker$DoSubmitAccumulativeRunnable.run(SwingWorker.java:814)
at sun.swing.AccumulativeRunnable.run(AccumulativeRunnable.java:95)
at javax.swing.SwingWorker$DoSubmitAccumulativeRunnable.actionPerformed(SwingWorker.java:824)
at javax.swing.Timer.fireActionPerformed(Timer.java:291)
at javax.swing.Timer$DoPostEvent.run(Timer.java:221)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:677)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:85)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:638)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:636)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:647)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

Also - what should I be trying to load from the site to test for the URL?

Can't reproduce the bug.

I think we should created our own quickload site and have different file nodes in annots.xml. For example, the file is from local server or from other online server(HTTP, FTP...).

Also we can do some other test for power user...

I tried Nick's test site, but the only thing that looked like it should load was called 'Data (FTP)' and when I tried to load it, it shows up in the data management table, but NO track is created at all...

IS this a bug?

When you want to test it, let me know. I will explain how to test.

Works, even on protected servers!

To test:

Download attached QL folder. Add QL to IGB server list. Open A thal. You should get the private server authorization (for our 'Old data' on transvar.org) After authorization, it should offer you 'Pollen' and 'protected test' files. Check the protected test file (bed file of junctions) zoom in and then load data.