Invent our own prefix values.

We're now dropping all pretense of keeping the database directly
compatible with sup's current xapian backend. (But perhaps someone
might write a new nothmuch backend for sup in the future.)

In coming up with the prefix values here, I tried to follow the
conventions of http://xapian.org/docs/omega/termprefixes.html as
closely as makes sense, (with some domain translation from "web"
to "email archive").
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Carl Worth 2009-10-24 22:49:35 -07:00
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@ -30,26 +30,35 @@ using namespace std;
#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof (arr) / sizeof (arr[0]))
/* These prefix values are specifically chosen to be compatible
* with sup, (http://sup.rubyforge.org), written by
* William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>, and released
* under the GNU GPL v2.
*/
typedef struct {
const char *name;
const char *prefix;
} prefix_t;
/* With these prefix values we follow the conventions published here:
*
* http://xapian.org/docs/omega/termprefixes.html
*
* as much as makes sense. Note that I took some liberty in matching
* the reserved prefix values to notmuch concepts, (for example, 'G'
* is documented as "newsGroup (or similar entity - e.g. a web forum
* name)", for which I think the thread is the closest analogue in
* notmuch. This in spite of the fact that we will eventually be
* storing mailing-list messages where 'G' for "mailing list name"
* might be even a closer analogue. I'm treating the single-character
* prefixes preferentially for core notmuch concepts (which will be
* nearly universal to all mail messages).
*/
prefix_t BOOLEAN_PREFIX_INTERNAL[] = {
{ "type", "K" },
{ "thread", "H" },
{ "ref", "R" },
{ "timestamp", "KTS" },
{ "type", "T" },
{ "thread", "G" },
{ "ref", "XREFERENCE" },
{ "timestamp", "XTIMESTAMP" },
};
prefix_t BOOLEAN_PREFIX_EXTERNAL[] = {
{ "tag", "L" },
{ "tag", "K" },
{ "id", "Q" }
};