:License: This module is covered under the GNU GPL v3 (or later).
-This page contains the main API overview of notmuch |release|.
+This page contains the main API overview of notmuch |release|.
Notmuch can be imported as::
or::
- from notmuch import Query,Database
+ from notmuch import Query, Database
+
+ db = Database('path',create=True)
+ msgs = Query(db,'from:myself').search_messages()
+
+ for msg in msgs:
+ print (msg)
More information on specific topics can be found on the following pages:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
- notmuch
+ status_and_errors
+ notmuch
:mod:`notmuch` -- The Notmuch interface
=================================================
.. automodule:: notmuch
-:todo: Document nmlib,STATUS
-
-:class:`notmuch.Database` -- The underlying notmuch database
+:class:`Database` -- The underlying notmuch database
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-.. autoclass:: notmuch.Database([path=None[, create=False[, mode=MODE.READ_ONLY]]])
+.. autoclass:: Database([path=None[, create=False[, mode=MODE.READ_ONLY]]])
.. automethod:: create
.. automethod:: upgrade
+ .. automethod:: begin_atomic
+
+ .. automethod:: end_atomic
+
.. automethod:: get_directory
.. automethod:: add_message
.. automethod:: find_message
+ .. automethod:: find_message_by_filename
+
.. automethod:: get_all_tags
.. automethod:: create_query
- .. note:: :meth:`create_query` was broken in release
- 0.1 and is fixed since 0.1.1.
-
.. attribute:: Database.MODE
Defines constants that are used as the mode in which to open a database.
.. autoattribute:: db_p
-:class:`notmuch.Query` -- A search query
+
+:class:`Query` -- A search query
-------------------------------------------------
-.. autoclass:: notmuch.Query
+.. autoclass:: Query
.. automethod:: create
Sort by message date, newest first.
SORT.MESSAGE_ID
- Sort by email message ID
+ Sort by email message ID.
+
+ SORT.UNSORTED
+ Do not apply a special sort order (returns results in document id
+ order).
.. automethod:: set_sort
.. automethod:: count_messages
+ .. automethod:: count_threads
+
:class:`Messages` -- A bunch of messages
----------------------------------------
.. automethod:: collect_tags
- .. automethod:: __len__
+ .. method:: __len__()
+
+ .. warning::
+
+ :meth:`__len__` was removed in version 0.6 as it exhausted the iterator and broke
+ list(Messages()). Use the :meth:`Query.count_messages` function or use `len(list(msgs))`.
:class:`Message` -- A single message
----------------------------------------
.. automethod:: get_filename
+ .. automethod:: get_filenames
+
.. attribute:: FLAG
- FLAG.MATCH
+ FLAG.MATCH
This flag is automatically set by a
Query.search_threads on those messages that match the
query. This allows us to distinguish matches from the rest
of the messages in that thread.
- .. automethod:: get_flag
+ .. automethod:: get_flag
.. automethod:: set_flag
-
+
.. automethod:: get_date
.. automethod:: get_header
.. automethod:: get_tags
+ .. automethod:: maildir_flags_to_tags
+
+ .. automethod:: tags_to_maildir_flags
+
.. automethod:: remove_tag
.. automethod:: add_tag
.. automethod:: thaw
- .. automethod:: format_as_text
+ .. automethod:: format_message_as_json
+
+ .. automethod:: format_message_as_text
.. automethod:: __str__
.. autoclass:: Tags
:members:
- .. automethod:: __len__
+ .. method:: __len__
+
+ .. warning::
+
+ :meth:`__len__` was removed in version 0.6 as it exhausted the iterator and broke
+ list(Tags()). Use :meth:`len(list(msgs))` instead if you need to know the number of
+ tags.
.. automethod:: __str__
-:class:`notmuch.Threads` -- Threads iterator
+:class:`Threads` -- Threads iterator
-----------------------------------------------------
-.. autoclass:: notmuch.Threads
+.. autoclass:: Threads
.. automethod:: __len__
:class:`Filenames` -- An iterator over filenames
------------------------------------------------
-.. autoclass:: notmuch.database.Filenames
-
- .. automethod:: notmuch.database.Filenames.__len__
+.. autoclass:: Filenames
-:class:`notmuch.database.Directoy` -- A directory entry in the database
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-.. autoclass:: notmuch.database.Directory
-
- .. automethod:: notmuch.database.Directory.get_child_files
-
- .. automethod:: notmuch.database.Directory.get_child_directories
+ .. automethod:: Filenames.__len__
- .. automethod:: notmuch.database.Directory.get_mtime
+ .. automethod:: Filenames.as_generator
- .. automethod:: notmuch.database.Directory.set_mtime
+:class:`Directoy` -- A directory entry in the database
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
- .. autoattribute:: notmuch.database.Directory.mtime
+.. autoclass:: Directory
- .. autoattribute:: notmuch.database.Directory.path
+ .. automethod:: Directory.get_child_files
-:exc:`NotmuchError` -- A Notmuch execution error
-------------------------------------------------
-.. autoexception:: NotmuchError
- :members:
+ .. automethod:: Directory.get_child_directories
- This execption inherits directly from :exc:`Exception` and is raised on errors during the notmuch execution.
+ .. automethod:: Directory.get_mtime
-:class:`STATUS` -- Notmuch operation return status
---------------------------------------------------
+ .. automethod:: Directory.set_mtime
-.. data:: STATUS
+ .. autoattribute:: Directory.mtime
- STATUS is a class, whose attributes provide constants that serve as return indicators for notmuch functions. Currently the following ones are defined. For possible return values and specific meaning for each method, see the method description.
+ .. autoattribute:: Directory.path
- * SUCCESS
- * OUT_OF_MEMORY
- * READ_ONLY_DATABASE
- * XAPIAN_EXCEPTION
- * FILE_ERROR
- * FILE_NOT_EMAIL
- * DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID
- * NULL_POINTER
- * TAG_TOO_LONG
- * UNBALANCED_FREEZE_THAW
- * NOT_INITIALIZED
+The `next page <status_and_errors.html>`_ contains information on possible Status and Error values.
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