lib: use the compaction backup path provided by the caller

[notmuch] / lib / notmuch.h

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 27b43ff6dc65988363ef8504bb98e1da7926d7c6..82fd59980b9911d1d5a33b54212fc4a374145610 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ typedef enum _notmuch_status {
     NOTMUCH_STATUS_TAG_TOO_LONG,
     NOTMUCH_STATUS_UNBALANCED_FREEZE_THAW,
     NOTMUCH_STATUS_UNBALANCED_ATOMIC,
+    NOTMUCH_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
 
     NOTMUCH_STATUS_LAST_STATUS
 } notmuch_status_t;
@@ -215,8 +216,30 @@ notmuch_database_open (const char *path,
 void
 notmuch_database_close (notmuch_database_t *database);
 
+/* A callback invoked by notmuch_database_compact to notify the user
+ * of the progress of the compaction process.
+ */
+typedef void (*notmuch_compact_status_cb_t)(const char *message, void *closure);
+
+/* Compact a notmuch database, backing up the original database to the
+ * given path.
+ *
+ * The database will be opened with NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE
+ * during the compaction process to ensure no writes are made.
+ *
+ * If the optional callback function 'status_cb' is non-NULL, it will
+ * be called with diagnostic and informational messages. The argument
+ * 'closure' is passed verbatim to any callback invoked.
+ */
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_database_compact (const char* path,
+                         const char* backup_path,
+                         notmuch_compact_status_cb_t status_cb,
+                         void *closure);
+
 /* Destroy the notmuch database, closing it if necessary and freeing
-* all associated resources. */
+ * all associated resources.
+ */
 void
 notmuch_database_destroy (notmuch_database_t *database);
 
@@ -250,7 +273,8 @@ notmuch_database_needs_upgrade (notmuch_database_t *database);
  * provide progress indication to the user. If non-NULL it will be
  * called periodically with 'progress' as a floating-point value in
  * the range of [0.0 .. 1.0] indicating the progress made so far in
- * the upgrade process.
+ * the upgrade process.  The argument 'closure' is passed verbatim to
+ * any callback invoked.
  */
 notmuch_status_t
 notmuch_database_upgrade (notmuch_database_t *database,
@@ -500,10 +524,15 @@ typedef enum {
 const char *
 notmuch_query_get_query_string (notmuch_query_t *query);
 
-/* Exclude values for notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded */
+/* Exclude values for notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded. The strange
+ * order is to maintain backward compatibility: the old FALSE/TRUE
+ * options correspond to the new
+ * NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG/NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_TRUE options.
+ */
 typedef enum {
-    NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE,
+    NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG,
     NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_TRUE,
+    NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE,
     NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_ALL
 } notmuch_exclude_t;
 
@@ -517,6 +546,15 @@ typedef enum {
  * match in at least one non-excluded message.  Otherwise, if set to ALL,
  * notmuch_query_search_threads will omit excluded messages from all threads.
  *
+ * If set to FALSE or FLAG then both notmuch_query_search_messages and
+ * notmuch_query_search_threads will return all matching
+ * messages/threads regardless of exclude status. If set to FLAG then
+ * the exclude flag will be set for any excluded message that is
+ * returned by notmuch_query_search_messages, and the thread counts
+ * for threads returned by notmuch_query_search_threads will be the
+ * number of non-excluded messages/matches. Otherwise, if set to
+ * FALSE, then the exclude status is completely ignored.
+ *
  * The performance difference when calling
  * notmuch_query_search_messages should be relatively small (and both
  * should be very fast).  However, in some cases,
@@ -753,7 +791,7 @@ notmuch_thread_get_messages (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
 int
 notmuch_thread_get_matched_messages (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
 
-/* Get the authors of 'thread'
+/* Get the authors of 'thread' as a UTF-8 string.
  *
  * The returned string is a comma-separated list of the names of the
  * authors of mail messages in the query results that belong to this
@@ -767,7 +805,7 @@ notmuch_thread_get_matched_messages (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
 const char *
 notmuch_thread_get_authors (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
 
-/* Get the subject of 'thread'
+/* Get the subject of 'thread' as a UTF-8 string.
  *
  * The subject is taken from the first message (according to the query
  * order---see notmuch_query_set_sort) in the query results that
@@ -999,10 +1037,13 @@ notmuch_message_set_flag (notmuch_message_t *message,
 time_t
 notmuch_message_get_date  (notmuch_message_t *message);
 
-/* Get the value of the specified header from 'message'.
+/* Get the value of the specified header from 'message' as a UTF-8 string.
+ *
+ * Common headers are stored in the database when the message is
+ * indexed and will be returned from the database.  Other headers will
+ * be read from the actual message file.
  *
- * The value will be read from the actual message file, not from the
- * notmuch database. The header name is case insensitive.
+ * The header name is case insensitive.
  *
  * The returned string belongs to the message so should not be
  * modified or freed by the caller (nor should it be referenced after