From: Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:37:57 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: actually complain if we get the wrong type
X-Git-Url: http://woldlab.caltech.edu/gitweb/?p=htsworkflow.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ca422e8919afac52412758d0414eb93f1193d92

actually complain if we get the wrong type
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diff --git a/htsworkflow/submission/encoded.py b/htsworkflow/submission/encoded.py
index 40512eb..0850f5a 100644
--- a/htsworkflow/submission/encoded.py
+++ b/htsworkflow/submission/encoded.py
@@ -468,7 +468,12 @@ class Document(object):
         self.description = description
 
         self.references = []
-        self.aliases = aliases if aliases is not None else []
+        self.aliases = None
+        if aliases:
+            if isinstance(aliases, list):
+                self.aliases = aliases
+            else:
+                raise ValueError("Aliases needs to be a list")
         self.content_type = None
         self.document = None
         self.md5sum = None