Starting with Emacs 27 undeclared variables in evaluated interactive
code uses lexical scope. This includes code passed with '--eval' as
we do in the Emacs tests, which also happen to assume dynamic scope.
- This can affect variables defined by libraries that we use. We
let-bind such variables to change the behavior of functions which we
then call with these bindings in effect. If these libraries are not
loaded beforehand, then the bindings are lexical and fail to have
the effect we intended.
At this time only 'smtpmail' has to be loaded explicitly (for the
variables let-bound in emacs_deliver_message and emacs_fcc_message).
'message' doesn't have to be loaded explicitly, because loading
'notmuch' (in 'run_emacs') already takes care of that, indirectly.
- Our own testing-only variables also have to be declared explicitly.
We should have done that anyway, but because of how and where these
variables are used it was very easy to overlook that (i.e. it isn't
something the byte-compiler ever looks at). Not so in Emacs 27
anymore; here this oversight caused four tests to fail.
The numeric values of these variables get incremented by functions
that we add to hooks that are run by many tests, not just the tests
where we actually inspect the value and therefore take care to let-
bind the values to 0 before we begin. The global values therefore
have to be numeric values as well. I have chosen -100 instead of 0
as the default in case someone writes a test that inspects the value
but forgets to let-bind the value. I hope that the unusual negative
value that one is going to see in such a case will help debugging
the issue.
The API docs promise to handle relative filenames, but the code did
not do it.
Also check for files outside the mail root, as implied by the API
description.
This fixes the bug reported at
id:87sgdqo0rz.fsf@tethera.net
Xapian currently succeeds to begin/end a transaction on a closed database,
or at least does not throw an exception. Make the test robust against
this changing.
In order to mimic the "best effort" API of Xapian to provide
information from a closed database when possible, do not
destroy the Xapian database object too early.
Because the pointer to a Xapian database is no longer nulled on close,
introduce a flag to track whether the notmuch database is open or not.
The original generic handler had an extra '%s' in the format
string. Update tests that failed to catch this because the template to
print status strings checked 'stat', which was not set.
This is actually one of the few potentially useful things you can do
with a message belonging to a closed database, since in principle you
could re-open the database.
Boolean return values have no out-of-band-values to signal errors. The
change here is that a (somewhat unlikely) fatal error after indexing
will now be caught.
As a side effect, we revert the switch from notmuch_bool_t to bool
here. This is because those two types are not actually compatible when
passing by reference.
It's not very nice to return FALSE for an error, so provide
notmuch_message_get_flag_st as a migration path.
Bump LIBNOTMUCH_MINOR_VERSION because the API is extended.
It is getting unwieldy to pass configuration options on the
sphinx-build command line, and I anticipate further use of
conditionals.
As far as I could tell, execing a string is the idiomatic way to
emulate include in Python.
Currently I don't know of a good way of testing this, but at least in
principle a Xapian exception in _notmuch_message_{add,remove}_term
would cause an abort in the library.
