lib: provide config API

This is a thin wrapper around the Xapian metadata API. The job of this
layer is to keep the config key value pairs from colliding with other
metadata by transparently prefixing the keys, along with the usual glue
to provide a C interface.

The split of _get_config into two functions is to allow returning of the
return value with different memory ownership semantics.

3 files changed, 108 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Makefile.local b/lib/Makefile.local
index 36c39243..76b57cb2 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.local
+++ b/lib/Makefile.local
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ libnotmuch_cxx_srcs =		\
 	$(dir)/index.cc		\
 	$(dir)/message.cc	\
 	$(dir)/query.cc		\
+	$(dir)/config.cc	\
 	$(dir)/thread.cc
 
 libnotmuch_modules := $(libnotmuch_c_srcs:.c=.o) $(libnotmuch_cxx_srcs:.cc=.o)
diff --git a/lib/config.cc b/lib/config.cc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ca74bf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/config.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/* config.cc - API for database metadata
+ *
+ * Copyright © 2016 David Bremner
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
+ *
+ * Author: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+ */
+
+#include "notmuch.h"
+#include "notmuch-private.h"
+#include "database-private.h"
+
+static const std::string CONFIG_PREFIX = "C";
+
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_database_set_config (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
+			     const char *key,
+			     const char *value)
+{
+    notmuch_status_t status;
+    Xapian::WritableDatabase *db;
+
+    status = _notmuch_database_ensure_writable (notmuch);
+    if (status)
+	return status;
+
+    try {
+	db = static_cast <Xapian::WritableDatabase *> (notmuch->xapian_db);
+	db->set_metadata (CONFIG_PREFIX + key, value);
+    } catch (const Xapian::Error &error) {
+	status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION;
+	notmuch->exception_reported = TRUE;
+	_notmuch_database_log (notmuch, "Error: A Xapian exception occurred setting metadata: %s\n",
+			       error.get_msg().c_str());
+    }
+    return NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+static notmuch_status_t
+_metadata_value (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
+		 const char *key,
+		 std::string &value)
+{
+    notmuch_status_t status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+    try {
+	value = notmuch->xapian_db->get_metadata (CONFIG_PREFIX + key);
+    } catch (const Xapian::Error &error) {
+	status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION;
+	notmuch->exception_reported = TRUE;
+	_notmuch_database_log (notmuch, "Error: A Xapian exception occurred getting metadata: %s\n",
+			       error.get_msg().c_str());
+    }
+    return status;
+}
+
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_database_get_config (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
+			     const char *key,
+			     char **value)
+{
+    std::string strval;
+    notmuch_status_t status;
+
+    if (! value)
+	return NOTMUCH_STATUS_NULL_POINTER;
+
+    status = _metadata_value (notmuch, key, strval);
+    if (status)
+	return status;
+
+    *value = strdup (strval.c_str ());
+
+    return NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 3a092efc..c827e02d 100644
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -1838,6 +1838,26 @@ notmuch_filenames_move_to_next (notmuch_filenames_t *filenames);
 void
 notmuch_filenames_destroy (notmuch_filenames_t *filenames);
 
+
+/**
+ * set config 'key' to 'value'
+ *
+ */
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_database_set_config (notmuch_database_t *db, const char *key, const char *value);
+
+/**
+ * retrieve config item 'key', assign to  'value'
+ *
+ * keys which have not been previously set with n_d_set_config will
+ * return an empty string.
+ *
+ * return value is allocated by malloc and should be freed by the
+ * caller.
+ */
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_database_get_config (notmuch_database_t *db, const char *key, char **value);
+
 /**
  * interrogate the library for compile time features
  */