[PATCH] First tests for JSON output and UTF-8 in mail body and subject

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:37:57 +0200, Gregor Hoffleit <gregor at hoffleit.de> wrote:
> The test suite doesn't yet cover --format=json output nor UTF-8 in
> subject or body.
> 
> This patch starts with test cases for 'search --format=json' and
> 'show --format=json'.

Thanks for the tests, Gregor!

I was about to push this, but first noticed that I hadn't run the test
suite in the last day and that it had recently broken (oops!). I fixed
that, but then also noticed that I got failures with your tests.


> +execute_expecting "show --format=json 'json-show-message'" '[[[{"id":
> "'${gen_msg_id}'", "match": true, "filename": "'${gen_msg_filename}'",
> "date_unix": 946728000, "date_relative": "2000-01-01", "tags":
...
> +printf " Search message: json...\t"
> +add_message '[subject]="json-search-subject"' '[date]="Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:00:00 -0000"' '[body]="json-search-message"'
> +execute_expecting "search --format=json 'json-search-message'" '[{"thread": "XXX",
> +"timestamp": 946724400,

I'm getting a timestamp value here of 946756800 which is clearly an
interpretation of the above date as if it were my local time zone. That
is:

	$ date -u +%s -d "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:00:00 -0800"
	946756800

And the value you have appears to have been generated in your timezone:

	$ date -u +%s -d "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:00:00 +0100"
	946724400

Meanwhile, the value that should be printed here[*] is the value from
interpreting the original date in the timezone explicitly specified in
that date:

	$ date -u +%s -d "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:00:00 -0000"
	946728000

Note that the "notmuch show --format=json" test above does have the
correct timestamp.

So, a double thanks for this test, it seems to have uncovered another
bug.

-Carl

[*] I say "should" because I don't believe we have any actual
specification of the data coming out of the JSON output yet. One other
thing that seems odd is the name of "date_unix" in the show output and
"timestamp" in the search output for what is effectively the same
field.



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