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#package-global instance of the notmuch library
try:
- nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.so.1")
+ nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.so.2")
except:
raise ImportError("Could not find shared 'notmuch' library.")
'NULL_POINTER',
'TAG_TOO_LONG',
'UNBALANCED_FREEZE_THAW',
+ 'UNBALANCED_ATOMIC',
'NOT_INITIALIZED'])
"""STATUS is a class, whose attributes provide constants that serve as return
indicators for notmuch functions. Currently the following ones are defined. For
* NULL_POINTER
* TAG_TOO_LONG
* UNBALANCED_FREEZE_THAW
+ * UNBALANCED_ATOMIC
* NOT_INITIALIZED
Invoke the class method `notmuch.STATUS.status2str` with a status value as
argument to receive a human readable string"""
STATUS.__name__ = 'STATUS'
-
class NotmuchError(Exception):
+ """Is initiated with a (notmuch.STATUS[, message=None]). It will not
+ return an instance of the class NotmuchError, but a derived instance
+ of a more specific Error Message, e.g. OutOfMemoryError. Each status
+ but SUCCESS has a corresponding subclassed Exception."""
+
+ @classmethod
+ def get_exc_subclass(cls, status):
+ """Returns a fine grained Exception() type,detailing the error status"""
+ subclasses = {
+ STATUS.OUT_OF_MEMORY: OutOfMemoryError,
+ STATUS.READ_ONLY_DATABASE: ReadOnlyDatabaseError,
+ STATUS.XAPIAN_EXCEPTION: XapianError,
+ STATUS.FILE_ERROR: FileError,
+ STATUS.FILE_NOT_EMAIL: FileNotEmailError,
+ STATUS.DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID: DuplicateMessageIdError,
+ STATUS.NULL_POINTER: NullPointerError,
+ STATUS.TAG_TOO_LONG: TagTooLongError,
+ STATUS.UNBALANCED_FREEZE_THAW: UnbalancedFreezeThawError,
+ STATUS.UNBALANCED_ATOMIC: UnbalancedAtomicError,
+ STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED: NotInitializedError
+ }
+ assert 0 < status <= len(subclasses)
+ return subclasses[status]
+
+ def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+ """Return a correct subclass of NotmuchError if needed
+
+ We return a NotmuchError instance if status is None (or 0) and a
+ subclass that inherits from NotmuchError depending on the
+ 'status' parameter otherwise."""
+ # get 'status'. Passed in as arg or kwarg?
+ status = args[0] if len(args) else kwargs.get('status', None)
+ # no 'status' or cls is subclass already, return 'cls' instance
+ if not status or cls != NotmuchError:
+ return super(NotmuchError, cls).__new__(cls)
+ subclass = cls.get_exc_subclass(status) # which class to use?
+ return subclass.__new__(subclass, *args, **kwargs)
+
def __init__(self, status=None, message=None):
- """Is initiated with a (notmuch.STATUS[,message=None])"""
- super(NotmuchError, self).__init__(message, status)
+ self.status = status
+ self.message = message
def __str__(self):
- if self.args[0] is not None:
- return self.args[0]
+ if self.message is not None:
+ return self.message
+ elif self.status is not None:
+ return STATUS.status2str(self.status)
else:
- return STATUS.status2str(self.args[1])
+ return 'Unknown error'
+
+# List of Subclassed exceptions that correspond to STATUS values and are
+# subclasses of NotmuchError.
+class OutOfMemoryError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class ReadOnlyDatabaseError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class XapianError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class FileError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class FileNotEmailError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class DuplicateMessageIdError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class NullPointerError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class TagTooLongError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class UnbalancedFreezeThawError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class UnbalancedAtomicError(NotmuchError):
+ pass
+class NotInitializedError(NotmuchError):
+ """Derived from NotmuchError, this occurs if the underlying data
+ structure (e.g. database is not initialized (yet) or an iterator has
+ been exhausted. You can test for NotmuchError with .status =
+ STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED"""
+ pass
+
+
+def _str(value):
+ """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch
+
+ C++ code expects strings to be well formatted and
+ unicode strings to have no null bytes."""
+ if not isinstance(value, basestring):
+ raise TypeError("Expected str or unicode, got %s" % str(type(value)))
+ if isinstance(value, unicode):
+ return value.encode('UTF-8')
+ return value
+