#include "database-private.h"
#include "parse-time-vrp.h"
#include "query-fp.h"
+#include "thread-fp.h"
#include "regexp-fields.h"
#include "string-util.h"
* We currently have three different types of documents (mail, ghost,
* and directory) and also some metadata.
*
+ * There are two kinds of prefixes used in notmuch. There are the
+ * human friendly 'prefix names' like "thread:", which are also used
+ * in the query parser, and the actual prefix terms in the database
+ * (e.g. "G"). The correspondence is maintained in the file scope data
+ * structure 'prefix_table'.
+ *
* Mail document
* -------------
* A mail document is associated with a particular email message. It
- * is stored in one or more files on disk (though only one has its
- * content indexed) and is uniquely identified by its "id" field
- * (which is generally the message ID). It is indexed with the
- * following prefixed terms which the database uses to construct
- * threads, etc.:
+ * is stored in one or more files on disk and is uniquely identified
+ * by its "id" field (which is generally the message ID). It is
+ * indexed with the following prefixed terms which the database uses
+ * to construct threads, etc.:
*
* Single terms of given prefix:
*
*
* In addition, terms from the content of the message are added with
* "from", "to", "attachment", and "subject" prefixes for use by the
- * user in searching. Similarly, terms from the path of the mail
- * message are added with "folder" and "path" prefixes. But the
- * database doesn't really care itself about any of these.
+ * user in searching.
+ *
+ * The path of the containing folder is added with the "folder" prefix
+ * (see _notmuch_message_add_folder_terms). Sub-paths of the the path
+ * of the mail message are added with the "path" prefix.
*
* The data portion of a mail document is empty.
*
{ "directory", "XDIRECTORY", NOTMUCH_FIELD_NO_FLAGS },
{ "file-direntry", "XFDIRENTRY", NOTMUCH_FIELD_NO_FLAGS },
{ "directory-direntry", "XDDIRENTRY", NOTMUCH_FIELD_NO_FLAGS },
- { "thread", "G", NOTMUCH_FIELD_EXTERNAL },
+ { "thread", "G", NOTMUCH_FIELD_EXTERNAL |
+ NOTMUCH_FIELD_PROCESSOR },
{ "tag", "K", NOTMUCH_FIELD_EXTERNAL |
NOTMUCH_FIELD_PROCESSOR },
{ "is", "K", NOTMUCH_FIELD_EXTERNAL |
fp = (new DateFieldProcessor())->release ();
else if (STRNCMP_LITERAL(prefix->name, "query") == 0)
fp = (new QueryFieldProcessor (*notmuch->query_parser, notmuch))->release ();
+ else if (STRNCMP_LITERAL(prefix->name, "thread") == 0)
+ fp = (new ThreadFieldProcessor (*notmuch->query_parser, notmuch))->release ();
else
fp = (new RegexpFieldProcessor (prefix->name, prefix->flags,
*notmuch->query_parser, notmuch))->release ();