Dear all,

For my tool, I was calling ncbi eutils for getting rsIDs in a given gene interval.

Here is my example post: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=snp&term=20000000%3A20000500%5BBase+Position%5D+AND+1%5BCHR%5D+AND+txid9606&usehistory=y

Here is the corresponding response:

HttpResponseProxy{HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden [Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 07:14:39 GMT, Server: Apache, Referrer-Policy: origin-when-cross-origin, Accept-Ranges: bytes, Vary: Accept-Encoding, X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge, X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block, Keep-Alive: timeout=1, max=10, Connection: Keep-Alive, Content-Type: text/html] org.apache.http.client.entity.GzipDecompressingEntity@4b00e89d}

I was parsing the resulting response with the code below; however this code doesn't work anymore. What has changed in ncbi eutils? Any idea?

if(response.getEntity() != null){
                InputStream is = entity.getContent();
                readerSearch = xmlInputFactory.createXMLEventReader( is);
}

while(readerSearch.hasNext()){
    XMLEvent evtSearch = readerSearch.peek();
if( !evtSearch.isStartElement()){
    readerSearch.nextEvent();
    continue;
}

StartElement startSearch = evtSearch.asStartElement();
String localNameSearch = startSearch.getName().getLocalPart();

if( !localNameSearch.equals("eSearchResult")){
    readerSearch.nextEvent();
    continue;
}

ESearchResult eSearchResult = unmarshaller.unmarshal(readerSearch, ESearchResult.class).getValue();
IdList idList =(IdList)eSearchResult.getCountOrRetMaxOrRetStartOrQueryKeyOrWebEnvOrIdListOrTranslationSetOrTranslationStackOrQueryTranslationOrERROR().get(5);

for(Id id : idList.getId()){
    rsIdList.add(Integer.parseInt( id.getvalue()));
}

}

I will really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance, Burçak Otlu