[PATCH v3 7/8] lib: add NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG to notmuch_exclude_t

Mark Walters markwalters1009 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 22 03:10:32 PDT 2013


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 20 2013, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think we should decide before 0.16 whether to go with this patch and
>> patch 8/8 or for Peter's suggestion at
>> id:1368454815-1854-1-git-send-email-novalazy at gmail.com
>>
>> Now we have an enum for the NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE possibilities (rather than a
>> bool) I think it makes sense to implement NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE properly
>> but I am happy with either choice.
>
> So, the choice here is to choose between
>
> id:"1368454815-1854-1-git-send-email-novalazy at gmail.com"
> and
> id:"87bo8edif8.fsf at qmul.ac.uk" 

I think if we go with the latter then it would make sense to also do
id:1368301809-12532-9-git-send-email-markwalters1009 at gmail.com
(or something similar)

Best wishes

Mark

>
> (might be hard to catch from this thread -- was easier to take from
> http://nmbug.tethera.net/status/ )
>
> Both apply cleanly to current master ( d0bd88f )
>
> While Peter's version surely looks simpler (and may work, didn't test atm)
> the comments Mark presents makes sense (especially the "subtlety" thing ;)
>
> IMHO Mark's version makes future development "safer" and therefore my
> vote (or million of those) goes to id:"87bo8edif8.fsf at qmul.ac.uk"
>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Mark
>
> Tomi
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 13 May 2013, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Add NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG to notmuch_exclude_t so that it can
>>> cover all four values of search --exclude in the cli.
>>>
>>> Previously the way to avoid any message being marked excluded was to
>>> pass in an empty list of excluded tags: since we now have an explicit
>>> option we might as well honour it.
>>>
>>> The enum is in a slightly strange order as the existing FALSE/TRUE
>>> options correspond to the new
>>> NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG/NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_TRUE options so this means we do
>>> not need to bump the version number.
>>>
>>> Indeed, an example of this is that the cli count and show still use
>>> FALSE/TRUE and still work.
>>> ---
>>>
>>> This is a new version of this single patch. In Peter's version
>>> NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG and NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE were treated as synonyms:
>>> this makes them behave in the obvious way and documents them.
>>>
>>> I think the only subtlety is the enum order mentioned in the commit
>>> message. Additionally it would be good to update cli count and show and,
>>> at for the latter, it would be good to add an option exclude=all too (so
>>> excluded messages are completely omitted). Those should both be simple
>>> but we need to decide whether to allow all four options
>>> (false/flag/true/all) always or not. Always allowing all 4 is nicely
>>> consistent but sometimes redundant. Additionally we would need some
>>> tests.
>>>
>>> I think this patch should go in with the main series as I think it is
>>> worth reserving the NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE #define/value so that we don't
>>> break code in future if we do wish to add it.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>  lib/notmuch.h    |   18 ++++++++++++++++--
>>>  lib/query.cc     |    8 +++++---
>>>  lib/thread.cc    |   28 +++++++++++++++-------------
>>>  notmuch-search.c |    2 +-
>>>  4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
>>> index 27b43ff..73c85a4 100644
>>> --- a/lib/notmuch.h
>>> +++ b/lib/notmuch.h
>>> @@ -500,10 +500,15 @@ typedef enum {
>>>  const char *
>>>  notmuch_query_get_query_string (notmuch_query_t *query);
>>>  
>>> -/* Exclude values for notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded */
>>> +/* Exclude values for notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded. The strange
>>> + * order is to maintain backward compatibility: the old FALSE/TRUE
>>> + * options correspond to the new
>>> + * NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG/NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_TRUE options.
>>> + */
>>>  typedef enum {
>>> -    NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE,
>>> +    NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG,
>>>      NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_TRUE,
>>> +    NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE,
>>>      NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_ALL
>>>  } notmuch_exclude_t;
>>>  
>>> @@ -517,6 +522,15 @@ typedef enum {
>>>   * match in at least one non-excluded message.  Otherwise, if set to ALL,
>>>   * notmuch_query_search_threads will omit excluded messages from all threads.
>>>   *
>>> + * If set to FALSE or FLAG then both notmuch_query_search_messages and
>>> + * notmuch_query_search_threads will return all matching
>>> + * messages/threads regardless of exclude status. If set to FLAG then
>>> + * the exclude flag will be set for any excluded message that is
>>> + * returned by notmuch_query_search_messages, and the thread counts
>>> + * for threads returned by notmuch_query_search_threads will be the
>>> + * number of non-excluded messages/matches. Otherwise, if set to
>>> + * FALSE, then the exclude status is completely ignored.
>>> + *
>>>   * The performance difference when calling
>>>   * notmuch_query_search_messages should be relatively small (and both
>>>   * should be very fast).  However, in some cases,
>>> diff --git a/lib/query.cc b/lib/query.cc
>>> index 1cc768f..69668a4 100644
>>> --- a/lib/query.cc
>>> +++ b/lib/query.cc
>>> @@ -218,13 +218,15 @@ notmuch_query_search_messages (notmuch_query_t *query)
>>>  	}
>>>  	messages->base.excluded_doc_ids = NULL;
>>>  
>>> -	if (query->exclude_terms) {
>>> +	if ((query->omit_excluded != NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE) && (query->exclude_terms)) {
>>>  	    exclude_query = _notmuch_exclude_tags (query, final_query);
>>>  
>>> -	    if (query->omit_excluded != NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE)
>>> +	    if (query->omit_excluded == NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_TRUE ||
>>> +		query->omit_excluded == NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_ALL)
>>> +	    {
>>>  		final_query = Xapian::Query (Xapian::Query::OP_AND_NOT,
>>>  					     final_query, exclude_query);
>>> -	    else {
>>> +	    } else { /* NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG */
>>>  		exclude_query = Xapian::Query (Xapian::Query::OP_AND,
>>>  					   exclude_query, final_query);
>>>  
>>> diff --git a/lib/thread.cc b/lib/thread.cc
>>> index bc07877..4dcf705 100644
>>> --- a/lib/thread.cc
>>> +++ b/lib/thread.cc
>>> @@ -238,20 +238,22 @@ _thread_add_message (notmuch_thread_t *thread,
>>>      char *clean_author;
>>>      notmuch_bool_t message_excluded = FALSE;
>>>  
>>> -    for (tags = notmuch_message_get_tags (message);
>>> -	 notmuch_tags_valid (tags);
>>> -	 notmuch_tags_move_to_next (tags))
>>> -    {
>>> -	tag = notmuch_tags_get (tags);
>>> -	/* Is message excluded? */
>>> -	for (notmuch_string_node_t *term = exclude_terms->head;
>>> -	     term != NULL;
>>> -	     term = term->next)
>>> +    if (omit_exclude != NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE) {
>>> +	for (tags = notmuch_message_get_tags (message);
>>> +	     notmuch_tags_valid (tags);
>>> +	     notmuch_tags_move_to_next (tags))
>>>  	{
>>> -	    /* We ignore initial 'K'. */
>>> -	    if (strcmp(tag, (term->string + 1)) == 0) {
>>> -		message_excluded = TRUE;
>>> -		break;
>>> +	    tag = notmuch_tags_get (tags);
>>> +	    /* Is message excluded? */
>>> +	    for (notmuch_string_node_t *term = exclude_terms->head;
>>> +		 term != NULL;
>>> +		 term = term->next)
>>> +	    {
>>> +		/* We ignore initial 'K'. */
>>> +		if (strcmp(tag, (term->string + 1)) == 0) {
>>> +		    message_excluded = TRUE;
>>> +		    break;
>>> +		}
>>>  	    }
>>>  	}
>>>      }
>>> diff --git a/notmuch-search.c b/notmuch-search.c
>>> index 4323201..a20791a 100644
>>> --- a/notmuch-search.c
>>> +++ b/notmuch-search.c
>>> @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ notmuch_search_command (notmuch_config_t *config, int argc, char *argv[])
>>>  	for (i = 0; i < search_exclude_tags_length; i++)
>>>  	    notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude (query, search_exclude_tags[i]);
>>>  	if (exclude == EXCLUDE_FLAG)
>>> -	    notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded (query, NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FALSE);
>>> +	    notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded (query, NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_FLAG);
>>>  	if (exclude == EXCLUDE_ALL)
>>>  	    notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded (query, NOTMUCH_EXCLUDE_ALL);
>>>      }
>>> -- 
>>> 1.7.9.1
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