The 'insert' command will be better served if parse_tag_command_line
modifies a pre-populated list (of new.tags) instead of clobbering the
list outright. The sole existing caller, notmuch_tag_command, is
unaffected by this change.
Move an error condition specific to the 'tag' command out of
parse_tag_command_line so that parse_tag_command_line can be used for
the forthcoming 'insert' command.
Command line parsing is factored out into a function
parse_tag_command_line in tag-util.c.
There is some duplicated code eliminated in tag_query, and a bunch of
translation from using the bare tag_op structs to using that tag-utils
API.
This switches the new batch-tag format away from using a home-grown
hex-encoding scheme for message IDs in the dump to simply using Xapian
queries with Xapian quoting syntax.
This has a variety of advantages beyond presenting a cleaner and more
consistent interface. Foremost is that it will dramatically simplify
the quoting for batch tagging, which shares the same input format.
While the hex-encoding is no better or worse for the simple ID queries
used by dump/restore, it becomes onerous for general-purpose queries
used in batch tagging. It also better handles strange cases like
"id:foo and bar", since this is no longer syntactically valid.
The memory usage discipline of tag_op_list_t is never to free the
internal array of tag operations before freeing the whole list, so it
makes sense to take advantage of hierarchical de-allocation by talloc.
By not relying on the context passed into tag_parse_line, we can allow
tag_op_list_t structures to live longer than that context.
The idea is not to bother with restore operations if they don't change
the set of tags. This is actually a relatively common case.
In order to avoid fancy datastructures, this method is quadratic in
the number of tags; at least on my mail database this doesn't seem to
be a big problem.
These are meant to be shared between notmuch-tag and notmuch-restore.
The bulk of the routines implement a "tag operation list" abstract
data type act as a structured representation of a set of tag
operations (typically coming from a single tag command or line of
input).
