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38 Subject: Exporting a single email as JSON
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39 From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
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58 Quick question: why isn't it reasonable to export a **single**
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59 email in JSON format (by using the `show` sub-command)? (I mean I
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60 understand that in order to be able to correctly parse the output we
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61 need only one "object" (i.e. a list of threads, containing a list of
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62 emails, etc.). But there might be use cases in which we need a
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65 My current use case is: I want to import the JSON representation
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66 of my emails in CouchDB, each email in a single document. And as I
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67 already have my emails indexed with Notmuch, I hopped that -- with the
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68 help of some Bash-fu and Curl -- it would have been trivial to
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69 instruct notmuch to export all emails matching a certain criteria as
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72 What would have been perfect in this case: each matching email
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73 (with or without the `--entire-thread` flag) should be exported as a
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74 single JSON object on a single line, thus each different email on a
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75 single line. Thus I could have easily used `notmuch show
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76 --output=json-line -- {criteria} | xargs -L 1 -- curl
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79 For now I'll pre-process the current output in JavaScript.
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