Our current approach is for top-level entry poitns in the library
to have try/catch blocks that catch any Xapian exception and print
a message. Add a few missing blocks and fix up the documentation.
Sebastian Spaeth reported [*] a segfault within libnotmuch when
running notmuch operations while an asyncronous offlineimap job had
removed some files from the mail store. Avoid this by handling all
cases where notmuch_message_get_header could return NULL.
[*] See message id:87d3xqti3o.fsf@SSpaeth.de on notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Previously, we always sorted the returned results by some string value,
(newest-to-oldest by default), however in some cases (as when applying
tags to a search result) we are not interested in any special order.
This introduces a NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value that does just that. It is
not used at the moment anywhere in the code.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
The thread-naming feature depends on the matched messages being passed
down in a precise order, (the order of the top-level search). We fix
the feature by passing that sort order down.
We know that matched messages are always added in order, so we can
always just grab the subject from the first message. This is the same
approach that was used previously in _thread_add_message. That is, the
recent feature of renaming a thread based on the subject of the
"first" matched message is as simple as moving the subject assignment
from _thread_add_message to _thread_add_matched_message.
At the moment all threads are named based on the name of the first message
in the thread. However, this can cause problems if people either start
new threads by replying-all (as unfortunately, many out there do) or
change the subject of their mails to reflect a shift in a thread on a
list.
This patch names threads based on (a) matches for the query, and (b) the
search order. If the search order is oldest-first (as in the default
inbox) it chooses the oldest matching message as the subject. If the
search order is newest-first it chooses the newest one.
Reply prefixes ("Re: ", "Aw: ", "Sv: ", "Vs: ") are ignored
(case-insensitively) so a Re: won't change the subject.
Note that this adds a "sort" argument to _notmuch_thread_create and
_thread_add_matched_message, so that when constructing the thread we can
be aware of the sort order.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
When constructing a thread, we usually run a nested query to find all
messages in the thread that match the original search string. However,
we need to have special-case handling of an original search string of
"*" now that that is a supported means of specifying all messages.
The special-case ends up bein quite simple---we do less work, (just
skipping the nested search since we know that all messages must
match). I had been wanting to write this identical code to more
efficiently handle "notmuch search thread:<foo>" which was previously
running two identical searches. So that case is now more efficient as
well.
This encodes the library version into the library, where the linking
binary can pick it up, and the linker can even enforce mismatches in
the minor release, (such as linking a binary against version 1.2 and
then attempting to run it against version 1.1).
I'm not sure which system Aaron used, but on the machine I have access
to, (Darwin 8.11.0), the -shared and -dylib_install_name options are
not recognized. Instead I use -dynamic_lib and -install_name as
documented here:
http://www.finkproject.org/doc/porting/shared.php
This patch adds a configure check for OS X (actually Darwin),
and sets up the Makefiles to build a proper shared library on
that platform.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>
notmuch previously unconditionally checked mime parts for various
properties, but not for NULL, which is the case if libgmime encounters
an empty mime part.
Upon encounter of an empty mime part, the following is printed to
stderr (the second line due to my patch):
(process:17197): gmime-CRITICAL **: g_mime_message_get_mime_part: assertion `GMIME_IS_MESSAGE (message)' failed
Warning: Not indexing empty mime part.
This is probably a bug that should get addressed in libgmime, but for
not, my patch is an acceptable workaround.
Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Reviewed-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>:
The original proposal for having different open modes used the name
WRITABLE. I didn't like that name, (easy to misspell as WRITEABLE even
for native English speakers). So we renamed it to READ_WRITE
immediately, but apparently some of the documentation held the old
name for a while.
Previously, we were only adding the reference terms for cases where
the referenced message did not yet exist in the database. For thread
presentation, it's useful to have the connection information provided
by the references, even when the messages are present. So add this
term unconditionally.
This function was recently modified, (to include a metadata lookup for
a message's thread ID before looking for parent/child thread IDs), but
the documentation wasn't updated. Fix that.
There are two primary cases in this function, (the message exists in
the database or it does not). Previously the code for these two cases
was split and intermingled with goto-spaghetti connections.
This allows us to thread messages even when we receive them out of
order, or never receive the root.
The thread ids for messages that aren't present but are referred to are
stored as metadata in the database and then retrieved if we ever get
that message.
When determining the thread id for a message we also check for this
metadata so that we can thread descendants of a message together before
we receive it.
Edited by Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>: Split this portion of the
commit from the earlier-applied portion adding test cases.
This seems like a generally useful thing to support, (but the previous
support through an empty string was not convenient for some users,
(such as the command-line client).
fix notmuch_message_file_get_header to always return the first instance
of the header you are looking for
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
With the original quiet function, there's an actual purpose (hiding
excessively long compiler command lines so that warnings and errors
from the compiler can be seen).
But with things like quiet_symlink there's nothing quieter. In fact
"SYMLINK" is longer than "ln -sf". So all this is doing is hiding the
actual command from the user for no real benefit.
The only actual reason we implemented the quiet_* functions was to be
able to neatly right-align the command name and left-align the arguments.
Let's give up on that, and just left-align everything, simplifying the
Makefiles considerably. Now, the only instances of a captialized command
name in the output is if there's some actually shortening of the command
itself.
We add a magic line to the beginning of each Makefile.local file to
help the editor know that it should use makefile mode for editing the
file, (even though the filename isn't exactly "Makefile").
Edited-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>: Expand treatment from
emacs/Makefile.local to each instance of Makefile.local.
The idea here is to allow a new user of notmuch to be able to run
notmuch immediately after compiling, (without having to install
the shared library first). This also ensures that the test suite
tests the locally compiled library, and not whatever installled
version of the library the dynamic linker happens to find.
When I wanted to create a debian package from the current master, make
install failed because of non-existent include directory. This patch
fixes this minor issue.
We had a fairly ugly violation of modularity with the top-level
Makefile.local isntalling everything, (even when the build commands
for the library were down in lib/Makefile.local).
For the case of adding a file that already exist, (with the same
filename). In this case, nothing will happen to the database, but
that wasn't clear before.
We were previously maintaining two lists of the child Makefile
fragments---one for the includes and another for the dependencies. So,
of course, they drifted and the dependency list wasn't up to date.
We fix this by adding a single subdirs variable, and then using GNU
Makefile substitution to generate both the include and the dependency
lists.
Some side effect of this change caused the '=' assignment of the dir
variable to not work anymore. I'm not sure why that is, but using ':='
makes sense here and fixes the problem.
Commit cd467caf renamed notmuch_query_search to notmuch_query_search_messages.
Commit 1ba3d46f created notmuch_query_search_threads. We better keep the docs
of notmuch_query_create consistent with those changes.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
Edited-by: Carl Worth to explicitly list the full name of each
function being referenced.
We rename 'has_more' to 'valid' so that it can function whether
iterating in a forward or reverse direction. We also rename
'advance' to 'move_to_next' to setup parallel naming with
the proposed functions 'move_to_first', 'move_to_last', and
'move_to_previous'.
Thanks to Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> for pointing out the
correct fix, which I verified in the freely-available WG14/N1124 draft
(from the C99 working group) which is available here:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf
The sequential identifiers have the advantage of being guaranteed to
be unique (until we overflow a 64-bit unsigned integer), and also take
up half as much space in the "notmuch search" output (16 columns
rather than 32).
This change also has the side effect of fixing a bug where notmuch
could block on /dev/random at startup (waiting for some entropy to
appear). This bug was hit hard by the test suite, (which could easily
exhaust the available entropy on common systems---resulting in large
delays of the test suite).
If we had external users of this filter then they might expect some of
these macros to exist. But since this is just internal, that's just
unneeded noise.
With modern MIME attachments, we're already avoiding indexing the
attachments. But for old-school uuencoded data in the mail, we have
been directly indexing the encoded data as terms, (which is not useful
at all---nobody will ever ytry to search based on the seemingly random
uuencoded data).
Additionally, indexing a modestly large uuencoded file seems to make
Xapian go insane, (consuming *lots* of memory).
We fix both problems by detecting uuencoded content and not performing
any indexing of it.
Previously we were printing a number of messages upgraded so far. The
original motivation for this was to accurately reflect the fact that
there are two passes, (so each message is processed twice and it's not
accurate to represent with a single count). But as it turns out, the
second pass takes zero time (relatively speaking) so we're still not
accounting for it.
If nothing else, the percentage-based reporting makes for a cleaner
API for the progress_notify function.
The WDF is the "within-document frequency" value for a particular
term. It's intended to provide an indication of how frequent a term is
within a document, (for use in computing relevance). Xapian's term
generator already computes WDF values when we use that, (which we do
for indexing all mail content).
We don't use the term generator when adding single terms for things
that don't actually appear in the mail document, (such as tags, the
filename, etc.). In this case, the WDF value for these terms doesn't
matter much.
But Xapian's flint backend can be more efficient with changes to terms
that don't affect the document "length". So there's a performance
advantage for manipulating tags (with the flint backend) if the WDF of
these terms is 0.
All notmuch searches currently sort by value (either date or message
ID) so it's just wasted effort for Xapian to compute relevance values
for each result. We now explicitly tell Xapian that we're uninterested
in the relevance values.
The first phase copies data from the old format to the new format
without deleting anything. This allows an old notmuch to still use the
database if the upgrade process gets interrupted. The second phase
performs the deletion (after updating the database version number). If
the second phase is interrupted, there will be some unused data in the
database, but it shouldn't cause any actual harm.
The recent support for renames in the database is our first time
(since notmuch has had more than a single user) that we have a
database format change. To support smooth upgrades we now encode a
database format version number in the Xapian metadata.
Going forward notmuch will emit a warning if used to read from a
database with a newer version than it natively supports, and will
refuse to write to a database with a newer version.
The library also provides functions to query the database format
version:
notmuch_database_get_version
to ask if notmuch wants a newer version than that:
notmuch_database_needs_upgrade
and a function to actually perform that upgrade:
notmuch_database_upgrade
Previously we had NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY but
NOTMUCH_STATUS_READONLY_DATABASE which was ugly and confusing. Rename
the latter to NOTMUCH_STATUS_READ_ONLY_DATABASE for consistency.
Previously, many checks were deep in the library just before a cast
operation. These have now been replaced with internal errors and new
checks have instead been added at the beginning of all top-levelentry
points requiring a read-write database.
The new checks now also use a single function for checking and
printing the error message. This will give us a convenient location to
extend the check, (such as based on database version as well).
The original wording made it sound like this function was just doing
some string manipulation. But this function actually creates new
directory documents as a side effect. So make that explicit in its
documentation.
When a notmuch database is upgraded to the new database format, (to
support file rename and deletion), any message documents corresponding
to deleted files will not currently be upgraded. This means that a
search matching these documents will find no filenames in the expected
place.
Go ahead and return the filename as originally stored, (rather than
aborting with an internal error), in this case.
Similar to the return value of notmuch_database_add_message, we now
enhance the return value of notmuch_database_remove_message to
indicate whether the message document was entirely removed (SUCCESS)
or whether only this filename was removed and the document exists
under other filenamed (DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID).
Previously, adding a filename with the same message ID as an existing
message would do nothing. But we recently fixed this to instead add
the new filename to the existing message document. So update the
documentation to match now.
In the presentation we often omit citations and signatures, but this
is not content that should be omitted from the index, (especially
when the citation detection is wrong---see cases where a line
beginning with "From" is corrupted to ">From" by mail processing
tools).
This new directory ojbect provides all the infrastructure needed to
detect when files or directories are deleted or renamed. There's still
code needed on top of this (within "notmuch new") to actually do that
detection.
This commit contains my changes to the API proposed by Keith. Nothing
is dramatically different. There are minor things like changing
notmuch_files_t to notmuch_filenames_t and then various things needed
for completeness as noticed while implementing this, (such as
notmuch_directory_destroy and notmuch_directory_set_mtime).
This will allow applications to support the removal of messages, (such
as when a file is deleted from the mail store). No removal support is
provided yet in commands such as "notmuch new".
The existing find_doc_ids function is convenient when the caller
doesn't want to be bothered constructing a term. But when the caller
*does* have the term already, that interface is just wasteful. So we
export a lower-level interface that maps a pre-constructed term to a
document-ID iterators.
The code to map a filename to a direntry is something that we're going
to want in a future _remove_message function, so put it in a new
function _notmuch_database_filename_to_direntry .
The library interface is unchanged so far, (still just
notmuch_database_add_message), but internally, the old
_set_filename function is now _add_filename instead.
Instead of storing the complete message filename in the data portion
of a mail document we now store a 'direntry' term that contains the
document ID of a directory document and also the basename of the
message filename within that directory. This will allow us to easily
store multple filenames for a single message, and will also allow us
to find mail documents for files that previously existed in a
directory but that have since been deleted.
Some pending commits want the _split_path functionality separate from
mapping a directory to a document ID. The split_path function now
returns the basename as well as the directory name.
We're planning to have mail documents refer to directory documents for
the path of the containing directory. To support this, we need the
path in the data, (since the path in the 'directory' term can be
irretrievable as it will be the SHA1 sum of the path for a very long
path).
We'll soon have mail documents referring to their parent directory's
directory documents, so we'll need access to _find_parent_id in files
such as message.cc.
Storing the document ID of the parent of each directory document will
allow us to find all child-directory documents for a given directory
document. We will need this in order to detect directories that have
been removed from the mail store, (though we aren't yet doing this).
The recent change from storing absolute paths to relative paths means
that new directory documents will already be created, (and the old
ones will just linger stale in the database). Given that, we might as
well put a clean name on the term in the new documents, (and no real
flag day is needed).
We were already storing relative mail filenames, so this is consistent
with that. Additionally, it means that directory documents remain
valid even if the database is relocated within its containing
filesystem.
We'll soon be having multiple entry points that accept a filename
path, so we want common code for getting a relative path from a
potentially absolute path.
And fix the initialization such that the private enum will always have
distinct values from the public enum even if we similarly miss the
addition of a new public value in the future.
The function _notmuch_message_add_thread_id has been removed
from the private interface of notmuch. There's no reason for
one to keep a declaration of its prototype in the code base.
Also, lets update a commentary that referenced that function
and escaped from previous scrutiny.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
Since we need to do this for portability, (some systems don't have a
strndup function), we might as well do it unconditionally. There's
almost no disadvantage to doing so, and this has the advantages of not
requiring a configure-time check nor having two different
implementations, one of which would often be less tested.
We carefully noted the fact that we had locally allocated the string
here, but then we neglected to free it. Switch to talloc instead
which makes it easier to get the behavior we want. It's simpler since
we can just call talloc_free unconditionally, without having to track
the state of whether we allocated the storage for name or not.
This error was tirggered with a debugging build via:
make CXXFLAGS="-DDEBUG"
and reported by David Bremner. The actual error is that I'm an
idiot that doesn't know how to use strcmp's return value. Of
course, the strcmp interface scores a negative 7 on Rusty Russell
ranking of bad interfaces:
http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
As per Carl's request, this patch corrects the only value defined under
the notmuch_message_flag_t enum typedef to match the name of the type.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
