lib/load_config: document expectations for db on error, add tests

This is a bit different than n_d_{open,create}_with_config, since
there are several non-zero status codes where we do want to return a
non-NULL database structure.

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 316385b84b435bdf696b95b7a046ca174c17ca1c..5c5a024e41defb04968357f1a0a999c6ae7faf45 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -460,6 +460,9 @@ notmuch_database_open_with_config (const char *database_path,
  *
  * For description of arguments, @see notmuch_database_open_with_config
  *
+ * For errors other then NO_DATABASE and NO_CONFIG, *database is set to
+ * NULL.
+ *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully loaded configuration.
  *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_NO_CONFIG: No config file was loaded. Not fatal.

diff --git a/test/T590-libconfig.sh b/test/T590-libconfig.sh
index bed887aa68eaa01096cb5a658c5914fa07ec7952..b4abbd78f09d9ea7e6a81574f199cd1a461111e7 100755 (executable)
--- a/test/T590-libconfig.sh
+++ b/test/T590-libconfig.sh
@@ -916,4 +916,41 @@ db == NULL: 1
 EOF
 test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
 
+test_begin_subtest "load_config: database set non-null on missing config"
+cat c_head3 - c_tail3 <<'EOF' | test_C ${MAIL_DIR} "/nonexistent"
+  notmuch_status_t st = notmuch_database_load_config(argv[1],argv[2], NULL, &db, NULL);
+EOF
+cat <<EOF> EXPECTED
+== stdout ==
+db == NULL: 0
+== stderr ==
+EOF
+test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
+
+test_begin_subtest "load_config: database non-null on missing config (env)"
+old_NOTMUCH_CONFIG=${NOTMUCH_CONFIG}
+NOTMUCH_CONFIG="/nonexistent"
+cat c_head3 - c_tail3 <<'EOF' | test_C ${MAIL_DIR}
+  notmuch_status_t st = notmuch_database_load_config(argv[1], NULL, NULL, &db, NULL);
+EOF
+NOTMUCH_CONFIG=${old_NOTMUCH_CONFIG}
+cat <<EOF> EXPECTED
+== stdout ==
+db == NULL: 0
+== stderr ==
+EOF
+test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
+
+test_begin_subtest "load_config: database set to NULL on fatal error"
+test_subtest_known_broken
+cat c_head3 - c_tail3 <<'EOF' | test_C
+  notmuch_status_t st = notmuch_database_load_config("relative", NULL, NULL, &db, NULL);
+EOF
+cat <<EOF> EXPECTED
+== stdout ==
+db == NULL: 1
+== stderr ==
+EOF
+test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
+
 test_done