From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] emacs: Improve error handling for
	notmuch-call-notmuch-json
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:15:10 -0500
Message-Id: <1355548513-10085-5-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1355548513-10085-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu>
References: <1355548513-10085-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu>
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This checks for non-zero exit status from JSON CLI calls and pops up
an error buffer with stderr and stdout.  A consequence of this is that
show and reply now handle errors, rather than ignoring them.
---
 emacs/notmuch-lib.el |   22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
index 4b71116..9222de8 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
@@ -373,15 +373,23 @@ contents of ERR-FILE will be included in the error message."
   "Invoke `notmuch-command' with `args' and return the parsed JSON output.
 
 The returned output will represent objects using property lists
-and arrays as lists."
+and arrays as lists.  If notmuch exits with a non-zero status,
+this will pop up a buffer containing notmuch's output and signal
+an error."
 
   (with-temp-buffer
-    (apply #'call-process notmuch-command nil (list t nil) nil args)
-    (goto-char (point-min))
-    (let ((json-object-type 'plist)
-	  (json-array-type 'list)
-	  (json-false 'nil))
-      (json-read))))
+    (let ((err-file (make-temp-file "nmerr")))
+      (unwind-protect
+	  (let ((status (apply #'call-process
+			       notmuch-command nil (list t err-file) nil args)))
+	    (notmuch-check-exit-status status (cons notmuch-command args)
+				       (buffer-string) err-file)
+	    (goto-char (point-min))
+	    (let ((json-object-type 'plist)
+		  (json-array-type 'list)
+		  (json-false 'nil))
+	      (json-read)))
+	(delete-file err-file)))))
 
 ;; Compatibility functions for versions of emacs before emacs 23.
 ;;
-- 
1.7.10.4