[PATCH 1/3] cli: add insert --must-index option

[Tomi Ollila]

On Thu, Oct 10 2013, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:

> Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:06:00 +0100, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Alternatively maybe add notmuch_database_destroy_with_flush or something
>>> which does give a return value. notmuch_database_close is only called 3
>>> times and notmuch_database_destroy lots of times so changing close is
>>> much less intrusive than changing destroy. But I don't know whether we
>>> would break any  bindings or external programs etc.
>>> 
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I think notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy should
>> return the status, and we update the three language bindings
>> and bump the soname.
>>
>
> I'm not opposed to doing an SONAME bump for 0.17. Are there other ABI
> breaking changes that we have been holding back on? Can these maybe go
> through at the same time?

Maybe something along these lines...

(Quick draft for the API part; to start discussion before working too much
for something that is going to be dropped...)

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 9dab555..ae52dab 100644
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -106,6 +106,17 @@ typedef enum _notmuch_status {
     NOTMUCH_STATUS_LAST_STATUS
 } notmuch_status_t;
 
+/* Structure to provide logging interface to the notmuch library
+ *
+ * ...
+ */
+
+typedef struct _notmuch_loghook {
+    void (*func)(struct _notmuch_loghook *, int level, int status,
+		 const char * format, ...);
+} notmuch_loghook_t;
+
+
 /* Get a string representation of a notmuch_status_t value.
  *
  * The result is read-only.
@@ -159,7 +170,9 @@ typedef struct _notmuch_filenames notmuch_filenames_t;
  * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION: A Xapian exception occurred.
  */
 notmuch_status_t
-notmuch_database_create (const char *path, notmuch_database_t **database);
+notmuch_database_create (const char *path,
+			 notmuch_loghook_t *loghook,
+			 notmuch_database_t **database);
 
 typedef enum {
     NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY = 0,
@@ -200,6 +213,7 @@ typedef enum {
 notmuch_status_t
 notmuch_database_open (const char *path,
 		       notmuch_database_mode_t mode,
+		       notmuch_loghook_t *loghook,
 		       notmuch_database_t **database);
 
 /* Close the given notmuch database.

>
> d

Tomi