Gaute Hope [Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:16:33 +0000 (10:16 +0200)]
python: deprecated add_message calls index_file correctly and returns result
The deprecated Database.add_message now calls the new index_file with
correct number of arguments (without an extra `self`), and returns the
tuple from index_file - as it used to do before.
This change also adds a DeprecationWarning to the function.
Jani Nikula [Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:09:49 +0000 (23:09 +0300)]
emacs: override enriched-decode-display-prop for text/enriched display
Switch to a local version of enriched-decode-display-prop if we
encounter a text/enriched part. This is to mitigate
https://bugs.gnu.org/28350. Normally it would be prudent to remove the
override afterwards, but in this case just leave it in.
Notes from db:
This doesn't disable text/enriched, just one feature of it.
David Bremner [Sun, 27 Aug 2017 23:58:23 +0000 (20:58 -0300)]
test/duplicate-mid: check for subject with notmuch-show
In [1] Mark showed that the the current code (d7a49e81) is not
consistent in it's handling of subjects of messages with duplicate
message-ids (or in notmuch-speak, of messages with multiple files).
notmuch-search uses indexing order and explicitedly preserves the
first. notmuch-show (apparently) uses alphabetical (or at least xapian
term order) of filenames. In a perfect world we would probably report
all subjects in the json output; at the very least we should be
consistent.
David Bremner [Sun, 27 Aug 2017 23:58:21 +0000 (20:58 -0300)]
test: known broken test for subject after reindexing
In [1], Mark gave a test that was behaving strangly. This turns out to
be specific to reindexing. I suppose one could argue that picking the
lexicographically last file name is a defensible choice, but it's
almost as easy to take the first, which seems more intuitive. So mark
the current situation as broken.
David Bremner [Sun, 27 Aug 2017 23:58:20 +0000 (20:58 -0300)]
test/duplicate-mid: clarify index order vs filename order
The existing test for notmuch search had the first in filename order
the same as the first indexed, which made it harder to understand what
the underlying behaviour is. Add a file with a lexicographically
smaller name, but later index time to clarify this.
David Bremner [Sun, 27 Aug 2017 23:58:19 +0000 (20:58 -0300)]
test: make fallback to duplicate test more robust.
The original intent of this test was to verify that notmuch show was
not crashing when the first file (where headers are being read from)
was deleted. Run the output through some sanitization so that as we
add and delete copies we don't have to update this test.
emacs: Refuse requests to refresh tree views while a refresh is running
notmuch-tree did not protect against concurrent refreshes like
notmuch-search, meaning, hitting '=' (notmuch-refresh-this-buffer)
quickly will spawn multiple parallel notmuch processes, and clobber
the existing results in the current buffer.
* notmuch-tree.el: Add a guard to notmuch-tree-refresh-view similar to
the one in notmuch-search.
David Bremner [Sun, 3 Sep 2017 11:55:42 +0000 (08:55 -0300)]
lib&cli: use g_object_new instead of g_object_newv
'g_object_newv' is deprecated, and prints annoying warnings. The
warnings suggest using 'g_object_new_with_properties', but that's only
available since glib 2.55 (i.e. a month ago as of this writing).
Since we don't actuall pass any properties, it seems we can just call
'g_object_new'.
David Bremner [Fri, 1 Sep 2017 23:59:47 +0000 (20:59 -0300)]
test/crypto: remove headers more robustly
In [1], Vladimir Panteleev observed that the In-Reply-To and
References headers could be wrapped in the 'default' output format of
notmuch-reply, depending on the version of Emacs creating the
message. In my own experiments notmuch-reply sometimes wraps headers
with only one message-id if that message-id is long enough. However it
happens, this causes the previous approach using grep to fail.
Since I found the proposed unwrapping shell fragment in [1] a bit hard
to follow, I decided to write a little python script instead. Then
Tomi suggested a slight generalization of my script, and here we are.
On some system configurations, setting a breakpoint on the "add_file"
function then issuing "continue" in gdb causes the debugger to
seemingly jump over the add_file invocation. This results in a test
failure, as the "Handle files vanishing between scandir and add_file"
subtest expects add_file to be called and fail due to the vanishing
file. The compiler optimization level also plays a role - the problem
can be reproduced with CFLAGS having -O2 but not -Og.
This problem was observed manifesting as a test failure on Travis CI
configured with "dist: trusty" and "sudo: false". It was not
reproducible on a local Docker image of Travis' runtime environment,
so Travis' virtualization infrastructure likely plays a role as well.
* T050-new.sh: Breakpoint notmuch_database_add_message instead of
add_file to the same effect, and avoid bad gdb behaviour on Travis
CI.
.travis.yml: Replace manual zlib installation with "dist: trusty"
Travis now offers Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS) VMs as test runners, which
is gradually becoming the default. We can opt in to using Trusty now
so that we no longer need to manually update zlib to a newer version.
David Bremner [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:35:26 +0000 (08:35 -0300)]
build: add target to run cppcheck
The advantage of having a target as opposed to running cppcheck by
hand
- reuse list of source files
- output errors in a format parsable, e.g. by emacs
- returns exit code 1 on any error, for possibly use in other
targets.
For the moment, leave this as an optional target. If desired, it can
be added to e.g. the release targets in the same way as the test
target.
Using two levels of directory for the stamps is arguably
overengineering, but it doesn't really cost anything, and leaves open
the possibility of putting other kinds of stamp files there.
This only checks "new" source files (w.r.t. their last check). A future target
(cppcheck-all ?) could blow away the stamp files first.
Jani Nikula [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:27:08 +0000 (21:27 +0300)]
build: add optional target parameter to quiet variable function
Sometimes using $@ as the target in the quiet build lines can be
confusing. Accept an optional second parameter in the quiet variable
function to specify the target.
David Bremner [Sun, 20 Aug 2017 01:07:27 +0000 (22:07 -0300)]
CLI/new: support maildir synced tags in new.tags
We reorder reading maildir flags to avoid overwriting 'new.tags'. The
inverted status of 'unread' means the maildir flag needs to be checked
a second time.
I backpedalled here on the idea of supporting 'new.tags' without
'unread' in the presence of maildir syncing. For files in 'new/', it
seems quite natural to tag them as 'unread'.
David Bremner [Sun, 20 Aug 2017 01:07:26 +0000 (22:07 -0300)]
lib: add notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag
I considered a higher level interface where the caller passes a tag
name rather than a flag character, but the role of the "unread" tag is
particularly confusing with such an interface.
test: Use small Python script for JSON normalization instead of json.tool
json.tool does not sort or otherwise normalize the order of JSON keys
in its output, which can result in test failures on some test systems.
Instead, use a one-line Python script passed to the interpreter
directly on its command line. Use sort_keys=True for json.dump to
ensure the key order is normalized. The script works with both Python
2 and 3.
reindex: drop notmuch_param_t, use notmuch_indexopts_t instead
There are at least three places in notmuch that can trigger an
indexing action:
* notmuch new
* notmuch insert
* notmuch reindex
I have plans to add some indexing options (e.g. indexing the cleartext
of encrypted parts, external filters, automated property injection)
that should properly be available in all places where indexing
happens.
I also want those indexing options to be exposed by (and constrained
by) the libnotmuch C API.
This isn't yet an API break because we've never made a release with
notmuch_param_t.
These indexing options are relevant in the listed places (and in the
libnotmuch analogues), but they aren't relevant in the other kinds of
functionality that notmuch offers (e.g. dump/restore, tagging, search,
show, reply).
So i think a generic "param" object isn't well-suited for this case.
In particular:
* a param object sounds like it could contain parameters for some
other (non-indexing) operation. This sounds confusing -- why would
i pass non-indexing parameters to a function that only does
indexing?
* bremner suggests online a generic param object would actually be
passed as a list of param objects, argv-style. In this case (at
least in the obvious argv implementation), the params might be some
sort of generic string. This introduces a problem where the API of
the library doesn't grow as new options are added, which means that
when code outside the library tries to use a feature, it first has
to test for it, and have code to handle it not being available.
The indexopts approach proposed here instead makes it clear at
compile time and at dynamic link time that there is an explicit
dependency on that feature, which allows automated tools to keep
track of what's needed and keeps the actual code simple.
My proposal adds the notmuch_indexopts_t as an opaque struct, so that
we can extend the list of options without causing ABI breakage.
The cost of this proposal appears to be that the "boilerplate" API
increases a little bit, with a generic constructor and destructor
function for the indexopts struct.
More patches will follow that make use of this indexopts approach.
We need a way to pass parameters to the indexing functionality on the
first index, not just on reindexing. The obvious place is in
notmuch_database_add_message. But since modifying the argument list
would break both API and ABI, we needed a new name.
I considered notmuch_database_add_message_with_params(), but the
functionality we're talking about doesn't always add a message. It
tries to index a specific file, possibly adding a message, but
possibly doing other things, like adding terms to an existing message,
or failing to deal with message objects entirely (e.g. because the
file didn't contain a message).
So i chose the function name notmuch_database_index_file.
I confess i'm a little concerned about confusing future notmuch
developers with the new name, since we already have a private
_notmuch_message_index_file function, and the two do rather different
things. But i think the added clarity for people linking against the
future libnotmuch and the capacity for using index parameters makes
this a worthwhile tradeoff. (that said, if anyone has another name
that they strongly prefer, i'd be happy to go with it)
This changeset also adjusts the tests so that we test whether the new,
preferred function returns bad values (since the deprecated function
just calls the new one).
We can keep the deprecated n_d_add_message function around as long as
we like, but at the next place where we're forced to break API or ABI
we can probably choose to drop the name relatively safely.
NOTE: there is probably more cleanup to do in the ruby and go bindings
to complete the deprecation directly. I don't know those languages
well enough to attempt a fix; i don't know how to test them; and i
don't know the culture around those languages about API additions or
deprecations.
Yuri Volchkov [Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:44:48 +0000 (17:44 +0200)]
show: workaround for the missing file problem
This patch fixes the 'Deleted first duplicate file does not stop
notmuch show from working' test.
If a message to be shown has several duplicated files, and for some
reason the first file in the list is not available anymore, notmuch
will exit with an error.
This is clearly a problem in the database, but we are not going to let
this problem be a show-stopper. Let's walk through the list, and show
the first existing file.
Yuri Volchkov [Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:44:46 +0000 (17:44 +0200)]
insert: strip trailing / in folder path
This patch fixes the "Insert message into folder with trailing /"
test. The problem was insufficient path canonization.
From database's point of view, "Sent" and "Sent/" are different
folders. If user runs (note the last '/'):
notmuch insert --folder=maildir/Sent/ < test.msg
notmuch will create an extra XDIRECTORY record for the folder
'Sent/'. This means that database will have _TWO_ records for _ONE_
physical folder: 'Sent' and 'Sent/'. However, the 'notmuch new'
command will update only records related to the first one (the correct
one).
Now, if user moved the email file (e.g. from 'Sent/new' to
'Sent/cur'), 'notmuch new' will add a record about the new file, but
will not delete the old record.
Yuri Volchkov [Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:44:45 +0000 (17:44 +0200)]
database: move striping of trailing '/' into helper function
Stripping trailing character is not that uncommon
operation. Particularly, the next patch has to perform it as
well. Lets move it to the separate function to avoid code duplication.
Also the new function has a little improvement: if the character to
strip is repeated several times in the end of a string, function
strips them all.
lib: clarify description of notmuch_database_add_message
Since we're accumulating the index when we add a new file to the
message, the semantics have slightly changed. This tries to align the
documentation with the actual functionality.
make-process is a new function introduced in Emacs 25, which provides
greater control over process creation. Crucially, it allows
separately redirecting stderr directly to a buffer, which allows us to
avoid needing to use the shell to redirect to a temporary file in
order to correctly distinguish stdout and stderr.
* notmuch-lib.el: Use make-process when it is available; fall back to
the previous method when not.
Load subprocess error output to a string in the callers, and propagate
the error messages as a string parameter instead of a path to file
names.
Required to be able to avoid using temporary files for subprocess
error output.
* notmuch-lib.el: Update notmuch-check-async-exit-status,
notmuch-check-exit-status: accept an err parameter instead of
err-file; shift the responsibility of loading error messages from
files up the call stack.
doc: Disable SmartyPants in generated manual pages
By default, Sphinx tries to pre-process text through SmartyPants,
which attempts to convert ASCII quotes and dashes to Unicode
characters. Unfortunately, this mangles technical text such as command
lines. For instance, this excerpt from notmuch-tag.rst:
Not only are these characters visually confusing and could easily be
mistaken for a single dash, copying and pasting such command lines
into a terminal is doomed to result in incomprehensible error
messages.
Jani Nikula [Sun, 13 Aug 2017 09:07:24 +0000 (12:07 +0300)]
emacs: set query-context to nil if its "" or "*"
The queries "" and "*" are special cased in the notmuch library to
match all messages, but only if they're the entire query. They can't
be combined with other queries, such as "* AND foo", in which case
they "leak" down to the Xapian query parser.
Notmuch show and tree buffers inadvertently combine the thread query
with said special queries, causing incorrect collapsing of
messages. Handle the special queries specially. We already do a
similar thing in notmuch-search-filter.
Yuri Volchkov [Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:31:22 +0000 (20:31 +0200)]
test: remove remainder of previously killed basic test
In the commit 51cd69feb1d131db7a468e33e0fa2e043caad41e the part of the
test "test runs if prerequisite is satisfied" has been
removed. However, there was a remainder of that test - variable
'haveit'.
A leading / in paths in a .gitignore file matches the beginning of the
path, meaning that for patterns without slashes, git will match files
only in the current directory as opposed to in any subdirectory.
Prefix relevant paths with / in .gitignore files, to prevent
accidentally ignoring files in subdirectories and possibly slightly
improve the performance of "git status".
David Bremner [Sat, 15 Jul 2017 02:01:26 +0000 (23:01 -0300)]
cli/new: improve error reporting
Recently a user reported a crash in notmuch new, but because of
missing error reporting, all they could say was "A Xapian exception
occured". This commit adds the extra information available about
the error message in the exception.
David Bremner [Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:20:37 +0000 (09:20 -0400)]
debian: add maintainer scripts to remove old startup file
We do it for notmuch and notmuch-emacs because the history is a bit
unclear. It seems to be safe to call when that conffile is not owned
by a given package
This new function asks the database to reindex a given message.
The parameter `indexopts` is currently ignored, but is intended to
provide an extensible API to support e.g. changing the encryption or
filtering status (e.g. whether and how certain non-plaintext parts are
indexed).
David Bremner [Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:32:30 +0000 (09:32 -0300)]
lib: add notmuch_message_count_files
This operation is relatively inexpensive, as the needed metadata is
already computed by our lazy metadata fetching. The goal is to support
better UI for messages with multipile files.
David Bremner [Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:32:29 +0000 (09:32 -0300)]
lib: index message files with duplicate message-ids
The corresponding xapian document just gets more terms added to it,
but this doesn't seem to break anything. Values on the other hand get
overwritten, which is a bit annoying, but arguably it is not worse to
take the values (from, subject, date) from the last file indexed
rather than the first.
David Bremner [Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:32:28 +0000 (09:32 -0300)]
test: add known broken tests for duplicate message id
There are many other problems that could be tested, but these ones we
have some hope of fixing because it doesn't require UI changes, just
indexing changes.
David Bremner [Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:32:26 +0000 (09:32 -0300)]
lib: factor out message-id parsing to separate file.
This is really pure C string parsing, and doesn't need to be mixed in
with the Xapian/C++ layer. Although not strictly necessary, it also
makes it a bit more natural to call _parse_message_id from multiple
compilation units.
David Bremner [Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:32:25 +0000 (09:32 -0300)]
lib/n_d_add_message: refactor test for new/ghost messages
The switch is easier to understand than the side effects in the if
test. It also potentially allows us more flexibility in breaking up
this function into smaller pieces, since passing private_status around
is icky.
David Bremner [Sun, 4 Jun 2017 12:32:24 +0000 (09:32 -0300)]
lib: isolate n_d_add_message and helper functions into own file
'database.cc' is becoming a monster, and it's hard to follow what the
various static functions are used for. It turns out that about 1/3 of
this file notmuch_database_add_message and helper functions not used
by any other function. This commit isolates this code into it's own
file.
Some side effects of this refactoring:
- find_doc_ids becomes the non-static (but still private)
_notmuch_database_find_doc_ids
- a few instances of 'string' have 'std::' prepended, avoiding the
need for 'using namespace std;' in the new file.
David Bremner [Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:19:37 +0000 (08:19 -0300)]
emacs: Add commentary for MELPA users
We have a steady trickle of people using notmuch-emacs from melpa with
distro packages of notmuch, and then being confused when it doesn't
work. Try to warn people what a foot-gun this is; this commentary
should be copied to the melpa web site.