From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:29:57 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: lib: return "" rather than NULL from notmuch_thread_get_authors
X-Git-Tag: 0.26_rc0~11
X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7cfa1c69610bcf15fb47868131d3d9102f899225

lib: return "" rather than NULL from notmuch_thread_get_authors

The current behaviour is at best under-documented. The modified test in
T470-missing-headers.sh previously relied on printf doing the right
thing with NULL, which seems icky.

The use of talloc_strdup here is probably overkill, but it avoids
having to enforce that thread->authors is never mutated outside
_resolve_thread_authors_string.
---

diff --git a/lib/thread.cc b/lib/thread.cc
index 1632da4c..3561b27f 100644
--- a/lib/thread.cc
+++ b/lib/thread.cc
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ _resolve_thread_authors_string (notmuch_thread_t *thread)
     thread->authors_array = NULL;
     g_ptr_array_free (thread->matched_authors_array, true);
     thread->matched_authors_array = NULL;
+
+    if (!thread->authors)
+	thread->authors = talloc_strdup(thread, "");
 }
 
 /* clean up the ugly "Lastname, Firstname" format that some mail systems
diff --git a/test/T470-missing-headers.sh b/test/T470-missing-headers.sh
index 4bf5d285..555fd4e9 100755
--- a/test/T470-missing-headers.sh
+++ b/test/T470-missing-headers.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ NOTMUCH_NEW >/dev/null
 test_begin_subtest "Search: text"
 output=$(notmuch search '*' | notmuch_search_sanitize)
 test_expect_equal "$output" "\
-thread:XXX   2001-01-05 [1/1] (null);  (inbox unread)
+thread:XXX   2001-01-05 [1/1] ;  (inbox unread)
 thread:XXX   1970-01-01 [1/1] Notmuch Test Suite;  (inbox unread)"
 
 test_begin_subtest "Search: json"