feat: support map and slice types in OBI attributes

Extends OBI header parsing to recognize and deserialize JSON-like arrays and objects. Introduces safe conversion utilities in `obiutils` to cast generic interface values into typed maps, and exposes them via new `BioSequence` methods. Header values are now marshaled, quote-normalized, and formatted for map and slice types.

pkg/obiformats/fastseq_obi_header.go

@@ -146,6 +146,65 @@ func __match__key__(text []byte) []int {
 	return []int{} // Not a key
 }
 
+func __match__array__(text []byte) []int {
+
+	state := 0
+	level := 0
+	start := 0
+	instring := byte(0)
+
+	for i, r := range text {
+		if state == 2 {
+			if r == ';' {
+				return []int{start, i + 1}
+			}
+			if r != ' ' && r != '\t' {
+				return []int{}
+			}
+		}
+
+		if state == 0 {
+			if r == '[' {
+				level++
+				state++
+				start = i
+				continue
+			}
+			if r != ' ' && r != '\t' {
+				return []int{}
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// state == 1: inside the array
+		if instring != 0 {
+			if r == instring {
+				instring = 0
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if r == '"' || r == '\'' {
+			instring = r
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if r == '[' || r == '{' {
+			level++
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if r == ']' || r == '}' {
+			level--
+			if level == 0 {
+				state++
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return []int{}
+}
+
 func __match__general__(text []byte) []int {
 
 	for i, r := range text {
@@ -242,6 +301,21 @@ func ParseOBIFeatures(text string, annotations obiseq.Annotation) string {
 					stop = m[1] + 1
 				} else {
 
+					// array value
+					m = __match__array__(part)
+					if len(m) > 0 {
+						bvalue = bytes.TrimSpace(part[m[0]:(m[1] - 1)])
+						j := bytes.ReplaceAll(bvalue, []byte("'"), []byte(`"`))
+						j = __obi_header_map_int_key__.ReplaceAll(j, []byte(`$1"$2":`))
+						arr, err := _parse_json_array_interface(j)
+						if err != nil {
+							value = string(bvalue)
+						} else {
+							value = arr
+						}
+						stop = m[1] + 1
+					} else {
+
 					// Generic value
 
 					// m = __obi_header_value_general_pattern__.FindIndex(part)
@@ -264,6 +338,7 @@ func ParseOBIFeatures(text string, annotations obiseq.Annotation) string {
 						// no value
 						break
 					} // End of No value
+					} // End of not array
 				} // End of not dict
 			} // End of not string
 		} // End of not numeric
@@ -327,9 +402,8 @@ func WriteFastSeqOBIHeade(buffer *bytes.Buffer, sequence *obiseq.BioSequence) {
 					buffer.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%s=", key))
 					buffer.Write(tv)
 					buffer.WriteString("; ")
-				case map[string]int,
-					map[string]string,
-					map[string]interface{}:
+				default:
+					if obiutils.IsAMap(value) || obiutils.IsASlice(value) || obiutils.IsAnArray(value) {
 						tv, err := obiutils.JsonMarshal(t)
 						if err != nil {
 							log.Fatalf("Cannot convert %v value", value)
@@ -338,11 +412,12 @@ func WriteFastSeqOBIHeade(buffer *bytes.Buffer, sequence *obiseq.BioSequence) {
 						buffer.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%s=", key))
 						buffer.Write(tv)
 						buffer.WriteString("; ")
-				default:
+					} else {
 						buffer.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%s=%v; ", key, value))
 					}
 				}
 			}
+		}
 
 		if sequence.HasDefinition() {
 			buffer.WriteByte(' ')

pkg/obiseq/attributes.go

@@ -364,6 +364,24 @@ func (s *BioSequence) GetIntSlice(key string) ([]int, bool) {
 	return val, ok
 }
 
+func (s *BioSequence) GetMapOfIntSlice(key string) (map[string][]int, bool) {
+	v, ok := s.GetAttribute(key)
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, false
+	}
+	val, err := obiutils.InterfaceToMapOfIntSlice(v)
+	return val, err == nil
+}
+
+func (s *BioSequence) GetMapOfStringSlice(key string) (map[string][]string, bool) {
+	v, ok := s.GetAttribute(key)
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, false
+	}
+	val, err := obiutils.InterfaceToMapOfStringSlice(v)
+	return val, err == nil
+}
+
 // Count returns the value of the "count" attribute of the BioSequence.
 //
 // The count of a sequence is the number of times it has been observed in the dataset.

pkg/obiseq/biosequence_test.go

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func TestNewBioSequence(t *testing.T) {
 // Return type: None.
 func TestNewBioSequenceWithQualities(t *testing.T) {
 	id := "123"
-	sequence := []byte("ATGC")
+	sequence := []byte("atgc")
 	definition := "DNA sequence"
 	qualities := []byte("1234")
 

pkg/obiutils/cast_interface.go

@@ -276,6 +276,44 @@ func InterfaceToStringMap(i interface{}) (val map[string]string, err error) {
 	return
 }
 
+func InterfaceToMapOfIntSlice(i interface{}) (val map[string][]int, err error) {
+	err = nil
+	switch m := i.(type) {
+	case map[string][]int:
+		val = m
+	case map[string]interface{}:
+		val = make(map[string][]int, len(m))
+		for k, v := range m {
+			val[k], err = InterfaceToIntSlice(v)
+			if err != nil {
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	default:
+		err = &NotAMapInt{"value attribute cannot be casted to a map[string][]int"}
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+func InterfaceToMapOfStringSlice(i interface{}) (val map[string][]string, err error) {
+	err = nil
+	switch m := i.(type) {
+	case map[string][]string:
+		val = m
+	case map[string]interface{}:
+		val = make(map[string][]string, len(m))
+		for k, v := range m {
+			val[k], err = InterfaceToStringSlice(v)
+			if err != nil {
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	default:
+		err = &NotAMapInt{"value attribute cannot be casted to a map[string][]string"}
+	}
+	return
+}
+
 func InterfaceToStringSlice(i interface{}) (val []string, err error) {
 	err = nil