From 203a717d64864411eb6802c06a5a0ad1cf98e077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:19:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] notmuch_database_add_message: Do not return a message on
 failure.

The recent, disastrous failure of "notmuch new" would have been
avoided with this change. The new_command function was basically
assuming that it would only get a message object on success so
wasn't destroying the message in the other cases.
---
 database.cc | 5 ++++-
 notmuch.h   | 9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/database.cc b/database.cc
index 8d477eca..0fd0bdad 100644
--- a/database.cc
+++ b/database.cc
@@ -836,6 +836,9 @@ notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
     const char *from, *to, *subject, *old_filename;
     char *message_id;
 
+    if (message_ret)
+	*message_ret = NULL;
+
     message_file = notmuch_message_file_open (filename);
     if (message_file == NULL) {
 	ret = NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_ERROR;
@@ -932,7 +935,7 @@ notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
 
   DONE:
     if (message) {
-	if (message_ret)
+	if (ret == NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS && message_ret)
 	    *message_ret = message;
 	else
 	    notmuch_message_destroy (message);
diff --git a/notmuch.h b/notmuch.h
index 7e83d239..f4e59ab2 100644
--- a/notmuch.h
+++ b/notmuch.h
@@ -252,10 +252,11 @@ notmuch_database_get_timestamp (notmuch_database_t *database,
  * reference the filename, and will not copy the entire contents of
  * the file.
  *
- * If 'message' is not NULL, then '*message' will be initialized to a
- * message object that can be used for things such as adding tags to
- * the just-added message. The user should call
- * notmuch_message_destroy when done with the message.
+ * If 'message' is not NULL, then, on successful return '*message'
+ * will be initialized to a message object that can be used for things
+ * such as adding tags to the just-added message. The user should call
+ * notmuch_message_destroy when done with the message. On any failure
+ * '*message' will be set to NULL.
  *
  * Return value:
  *
-- 
2.43.0