exporting large numbers of hit sequences creates too long a command-line #751
Description
Using -entry when you have tens of thousands of hits can lead the export process to crash.
We should refactor
sequenceserver/lib/sequenceserver/sequence.rb
Line 198 in 1463d05
*** Retrieval options
-entry <String>
Comma-delimited search string(s) of sequence identifiers:
e.g.: 555, AC147927, 'gnl|dbname|tag', or 'all' to select all
sequences in the database
* Incompatible with: entry_batch, ipg, ipg_batch, info, metadata,
tax_info, taxids, taxidlist, no_taxid_expansion, list, recursive,
remove_redundant_dbs, list_outfmt, show_blastdb_search_path
-entry_batch <File_In>
Input file for batch processing (Format: one entry per line, seq id
followed by optional space-delimited specifier(s)
[range|strand|mask_algo_id]
* Incompatible with: entry, range, strand, mask_sequence_with, ipg,
ipg_batch, info, metadata, tax_info, taxids, taxidlist, no_taxid_expansion,
list, recursive, remove_redundant_dbs, list_outfmt,
show_blastdb_search_path