Java library to manipulate VCF files

[binfoUser]

I'm starting to work with VCF files and other types of files with genes annotation.
I want to know if there is any Java libraries that I can use to manipulate vcf files.

Thank you!

[lindenb]

https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk

https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk

example:

import htsjdk.variant.vcf.*;
import htsjdk.variant.variantcontext.*;
import htsjdk.tribble.readers.*;
public class MinVcf
	{
	public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
		{
		VCFCodec codec= new VCFCodec();
		LineReader r= LineReaderUtil.fromBufferedStream(System.in);
		LineIteratorImpl t= new LineIteratorImpl(r);
		codec.readActualHeader(t);
		while(t.hasNext())
			{
			VariantContext ctx = codec.decode(t.next());
			}
		r.close();
		}
	}

[binfoUser]

I saw that library but I have to use Ant to build the jarfile. I installed Ant and when I run the code to buil the jar I get an error:

BUILD FAILED
/home/usr/Documents/htsjdk-master/build.xml:96: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/usr/Documents/htsjdk-master/build.xml:241: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

I tried but I always have this error.

[lindenb]

as it is said: "see the compiler error output for details.".
So, what's the compiler output ?

[binfoUser]

I think is this:

[javac] /home/usr/Documents/htsjdk-master/build.xml:241: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds
[javac] Compiling 410 source files to /home/usr/Documents/htsjdk-master/classes
[javac] javac: invalid target release: 1.8
[javac] Usage: javac <options> <source files>
[javac] use -help for a list of possible options

[lindenb]

you need to install java 1.8 :

https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk " Java 8 is now required."

and set JAVA_HOME if needed.

[binfoUser]

It worked! But I was reading this page building htsjdk and it was talking about 1.6. I was confused because of that.

Thank you!