cli: add --include-html option to notmuch show
John Lenz
lenz at math.uic.edu
Wed Jul 24 19:36:11 PDT 2013
On Sun Jul 21 15:23 -0500 2013, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02 2013, John Lenz <lenz at math.uic.edu> wrote:
>
> > For my client, the largest bottleneck for displaying large threads is
> > exporting each html part individually since by default notmuch will not
> > show the json parts. For large threads there can be quite a few parts and
> > each must be exported and decoded one by one. Also, I then have to deal
> > with all the crazy charsets which I can do through a library but is a
> > pain.
>
> This looks like a useful option. I just wonder what effect does different
> charsets do to the output (is text/html content output verbatim (with just
> json/sexp escaping of '"' -characters).
>
> If you added test(s) showing what happens with different charsets
> (like one message having 3 text/html parts, one us-ascii, one iso-8859-1
> and one utf-8) that would make things clearer and (also) protect us from
> regressions.
>
Here is a test I wrote. I tried to follow the other tests in formatting.
Let me know if you want this as a single patch combined with the code
to enable the option, I can resend it.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
test_description="include html parts when showing message"
. ./test-lib.sh
cat <<EOF > ${MAIL_DIR}/msg
From: A <a at example.com>
To: B <b at example.com>
Subject: html message
Date: Sat, 01 January 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <htmlmessage>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="==-=="
--==-==
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
EOF
# The Unicode fraction symbol 1/2 is U+00BD and is encoded
# in UTF-8 as two bytes: octal 302 275
echo $'<p>0.5 equals \302\275</p>' >> ${MAIL_DIR}/msg
cat <<EOF >> ${MAIL_DIR}/msg
--==-==
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
EOF
# The ISO-8859-1 encoding of U+00BD is a single byte: octal 275
echo $'<p>0.5 equals \275</p>' >> ${MAIL_DIR}/msg
cat <<EOF >> ${MAIL_DIR}/msg
--==-==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
0.5 equals 1/2
--==-==--
EOF
notmuch new > /dev/null
cat <<EOF > EXPECTED.head
[[[{"id": "htmlmessage", "match":true, "excluded": false, "date_relative":"2000-01-01",
"timestamp": 946684800,
"filename": "${MAIL_DIR}/msg",
"tags": ["inbox", "unread"],
"headers": { "Date": "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000", "From": "A <a at example.com>",
"Subject": "html message", "To": "B <b at example.com>"},
"body": [{
"content-type": "multipart/alternative", "id": 1,
EOF
cat EXPECTED.head > EXPECTED.nohtml
cat <<EOF >> EXPECTED.nohtml
"content": [
{ "id": 2, "content-charset": "UTF-8", "content-length": 21, "content-type": "text/html"},
{ "id": 3, "content-charset": "ISO-8859-1", "content-length": 20, "content-type": "text/html"},
{ "id": 4, "content-type": "text/plain", "content": "0.5 equals 1/2\\n"}
]}]},[]]]]
EOF
# Both the UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 part should have U+00BD
cat EXPECTED.head > EXPECTED.withhtml
cat <<EOF >> EXPECTED.withhtml
"content": [
{ "id": 2, "content-type": "text/html", "content": "<p>0.5 equals \\u00bd</p>\\n"},
{ "id": 3, "content-type": "text/html", "content": "<p>0.5 equals \\u00bd</p>\\n"},
{ "id": 4, "content-type": "text/plain", "content": "0.5 equals 1/2\\n"}
]}]},[]]]]
EOF
test_begin_subtest "html parts excluded by default"
notmuch show --format=json id:htmlmessage >OUTPUT
test_expect_equal_json "$(cat OUTPUT)" "$(cat EXPECTED.nohtml)"
test_begin_subtest "html parts included"
notmuch show --format=json --include-html id:htmlmessage > OUTPUT
test_expect_equal_json "$(cat OUTPUT)" "$(cat EXPECTED.withhtml)"
test_done
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