notmuch search: Print the names of author of matched emails.

It's important to have the names present for determining whether a
thread is worth reading or not. We may want to think about
abbreviating the list somehow if it is excessively long (or redundant
as in bugzilla-daemon, bugzilla-daemon, bugzilla-daemon, etc.).

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 40a1dca7e1cab7467c90372f330848733fba1056..4004af907d2e808c07e449b6b0d9d64d418a5bb5 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -451,6 +451,20 @@ notmuch_threads_destroy (notmuch_threads_t *threads);
 const char *
 notmuch_thread_get_thread_id (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
 
+/* Get the authors of 'thread'
+ *
+ * The returned string is a comma-separated list of the names of the
+ * authors of mail messages in the query results that belong to this
+ * thread.
+ *
+ * The returned string belongs to 'thread' and as such, should not be
+ * modified by the caller and will only be valid for as long as the
+ * thread is valid, (which is until notmuch_thread_destroy or until
+ * the query from which it derived is destroyed).
+ */
+const char *
+notmuch_thread_get_authors (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
+
 /* Get the subject of 'thread'
  *
  * The subject is taken from the first message (according to the query

diff --git a/lib/thread.cc b/lib/thread.cc
index b67dfade5e16091fde964ddbafd69e1da6b5eb01..e85e2afdb19e3526615ec813fe2720bbb16a2726 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/thread.cc
+++ b/lib/thread.cc
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@
 
 #include <xapian.h>
 
+#include <gmime/gmime.h>
 #include <glib.h> /* GHashTable */
 
 struct _notmuch_thread {
     notmuch_database_t *notmuch;
     char *thread_id;
     char *subject;
+    char *authors;
     GHashTable *tags;
 
     notmuch_bool_t has_message;
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ _notmuch_thread_create (const void *talloc_owner,
     thread->notmuch = notmuch;
     thread->thread_id = talloc_strdup (thread, thread_id);
     thread->subject = NULL;
+    thread->authors = NULL;
     thread->tags = g_hash_table_new_full (g_str_hash, g_str_equal,
                                          free, NULL);
 
@@ -98,6 +101,32 @@ _notmuch_thread_add_message (notmuch_thread_t *thread,
     notmuch_tags_t *tags;
     const char *tag;
     time_t date;
+    InternetAddressList *list;
+    InternetAddress *address;
+    const char *from, *author;
+
+    from = notmuch_message_get_header (message, "from");
+    list = internet_address_list_parse_string (from);
+    if (list) {
+       address = internet_address_list_get_address (list, 0);
+       if (address) {
+           author = internet_address_get_name (address);
+           if (author == NULL) {
+               InternetAddressMailbox *mailbox;
+               mailbox = INTERNET_ADDRESS_MAILBOX (address);
+               author = internet_address_mailbox_get_addr (mailbox);
+           }
+           if (author) {
+               if (thread->authors)
+                   thread->authors = talloc_asprintf (thread, "%s, %s",
+                                                      thread->authors,
+                                                      author);
+               else
+                   thread->authors = talloc_strdup (thread, author);
+           }
+       }
+       g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (list));
+    }
 
     if (! thread->subject) {
        const char *subject;
@@ -124,6 +153,12 @@ _notmuch_thread_add_message (notmuch_thread_t *thread,
     thread->has_message = 1;
 }
 
+const char *
+notmuch_thread_get_authors (notmuch_thread_t *thread)
+{
+    return thread->authors;
+}
+
 const char *
 notmuch_thread_get_subject (notmuch_thread_t *thread)
 {

diff --git a/notmuch-search.c b/notmuch-search.c
index 3873a067cb59d5c21173ecdb23778848c6707a2b..38ca75d63ade2582c40db3bf7db6f08ace0d5c68 100644 (file)
--- a/notmuch-search.c
+++ b/notmuch-search.c
@@ -64,9 +64,10 @@ notmuch_search_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
        date = notmuch_thread_get_oldest_date (thread);
        relative_date = notmuch_time_relative_date (ctx, date);
 
-       printf ("thread:%s %12s %s",
+       printf ("thread:%s %12s %s; %s",
                notmuch_thread_get_thread_id (thread),
                relative_date,
+               notmuch_thread_get_authors (thread),
                notmuch_thread_get_subject (thread));
 
        printf (" (");