*
* After a successful call to notmuch_database_create, the returned
* database will be open so the caller should call
- * notmuch_database_close when finished with it.
+ * notmuch_database_destroy when finished with it.
*
* The database will not yet have any data in it
* (notmuch_database_create itself is a very cheap function). Messages
* contained within 'path' can be added to the database by calling
* notmuch_database_add_message.
*
- * In case of any failure, this function returns NULL, (after printing
- * an error message on stderr).
+ * In case of any failure, this function returns an error status and
+ * sets *database to NULL (after printing an error message on stderr).
+ *
+ * Return value:
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully created the database.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_NULL_POINTER: The given 'path' argument is NULL.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_OUT_OF_MEMORY: Out of memory.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_ERROR: An error occurred trying to create the
+ * database file (such as permission denied, or file not found,
+ * etc.), or the database already exists.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION: A Xapian exception occurred.
*/
-notmuch_database_t *
-notmuch_database_create (const char *path);
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_database_create (const char *path, notmuch_database_t **database);
typedef enum {
NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY = 0,
NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE
} notmuch_database_mode_t;
-/* XXX: I think I'd like this to take an extra argument of
- * notmuch_status_t* for returning a status value on failure. */
-
/* Open an existing notmuch database located at 'path'.
*
* The database should have been created at some time in the past,
* An existing notmuch database can be identified by the presence of a
* directory named ".notmuch" below 'path'.
*
- * The caller should call notmuch_database_close when finished with
+ * The caller should call notmuch_database_destroy when finished with
* this database.
*
- * In case of any failure, this function returns NULL, (after printing
- * an error message on stderr).
+ * In case of any failure, this function returns an error status and
+ * sets *database to NULL (after printing an error message on stderr).
+ *
+ * Return value:
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully opened the database.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_NULL_POINTER: The given 'path' argument is NULL.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_OUT_OF_MEMORY: Out of memory.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_ERROR: An error occurred trying to open the
+ * database file (such as permission denied, or file not found,
+ * etc.), or the database version is unknown.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION: A Xapian exception occurred.
*/
-notmuch_database_t *
+notmuch_status_t
notmuch_database_open (const char *path,
- notmuch_database_mode_t mode);
+ notmuch_database_mode_t mode,
+ notmuch_database_t **database);
-/* Close the given notmuch database, freeing all associated
- * resources. See notmuch_database_open. */
+/* Close the given notmuch database.
+ *
+ * After notmuch_database_close has been called, calls to other
+ * functions on objects derived from this database may either behave
+ * as if the database had not been closed (e.g., if the required data
+ * has been cached) or may fail with a
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION.
+ *
+ * notmuch_database_close can be called multiple times. Later calls
+ * have no effect.
+ */
void
notmuch_database_close (notmuch_database_t *database);
+/* Destroy the notmuch database, closing it if necessary and freeing
+* all associated resources. */
+void
+notmuch_database_destroy (notmuch_database_t *database);
+
/* Return the database path of the given database.
*
* The return value is a string owned by notmuch so should not be
* (see notmuch_database_get_path), or else should be an absolute path
* with initial components that match the path of 'database'.
*
- * Can return NULL if a Xapian exception occurs.
+ * Note: Currently this will create the directory object if it doesn't
+ * exist. In the future, when a directory object does not exist this
+ * will return NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS and set *directory to NULL.
+ * Callers should be prepared for this.
+ *
+ * Return value:
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully retrieved directory.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_NULL_POINTER: The given 'directory' argument is NULL.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION: A Xapian exception occurred;
+ * directory not retrieved.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_READ_ONLY_DATABASE: Database was opened in read-only
+ * mode so the directory cannot be created (this case will be
+ * removed in the future).
*/
-notmuch_directory_t *
+notmuch_status_t
notmuch_database_get_directory (notmuch_database_t *database,
- const char *path);
+ const char *path,
+ notmuch_directory_t **directory);
/* Add a new message to the given notmuch database or associate an
* additional filename with an existing message.
const char *
notmuch_query_get_query_string (notmuch_query_t *query);
-/* Specify whether to results should omit the excluded results rather
- * than just marking them excluded. This is useful for passing a
- * notmuch_messages_t not containing the excluded messages to other
- * functions. */
+/* Specify whether to omit excluded results or simply flag them. By
+ * default, this is set to TRUE.
+ *
+ * If this is TRUE, notmuch_query_search_messages will omit excluded
+ * messages from the results. notmuch_query_search_threads will omit
+ * threads that match only in excluded messages, but will include all
+ * messages in threads that match in at least one non-excluded
+ * message.
+ *
+ * The performance difference when calling
+ * notmuch_query_search_messages should be relatively small (and both
+ * should be very fast). However, in some cases,
+ * notmuch_query_search_threads is very much faster when omitting
+ * excluded messages as it does not need to construct the threads that
+ * only match in excluded messages.
+ */
+
void
-notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded_messages (notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_bool_t omit);
+notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded (notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_bool_t omit_excluded);
/* Specify the sorting desired for this query. */
void
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