From 2872a8be0e27e3d35e39a62968da739406254e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 11:28:57 +2100 Subject: [PATCH] RFC: message property API --- ec/f0586bd71be97546b72a0aa5836492782006be | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ec/f0586bd71be97546b72a0aa5836492782006be diff --git a/ec/f0586bd71be97546b72a0aa5836492782006be b/ec/f0586bd71be97546b72a0aa5836492782006be new file mode 100644 index 000000000..309876331 --- /dev/null +++ b/ec/f0586bd71be97546b72a0aa5836492782006be @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFB06DE02CC + for ; Sun, 22 May 2016 07:29:19 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.012 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.012 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[AWL=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id mkrq_l7gw-HA for ; + Sun, 22 May 2016 07:29:11 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65DF86DE0231 + for ; Sun, 22 May 2016 07:29:10 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) + (envelope-from ) id 1b4UNH-00050Z-MC + for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Sun, 22 May 2016 10:28:59 -0400 +Received: (nullmailer pid 5511 invoked by uid 1000); + Sun, 22 May 2016 14:29:06 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: RFC: message property API +Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 11:28:57 -0300 +Message-Id: <1463927339-5441-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> +X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.1 +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 14:29:19 -0000 + +People (or maybe just dkg) have proposed various bits of user metadata +to attach to messages + + - references to be added or blacklisted + - encryption related key material + +Since such metadata would be not-reproducible from the message files, +it would be "precious" and need a backup/restore path. + +This is a prototype of a library API to support that. + +Some things to note: + + - This is tested on top of my libconfig [1] series, but I think there is no + logical dependency + + - there are no docs, see the tests + + - this is just the low level api; it would need to be extended in a + similar way to the libconfig series to dump and restore metadata. + This might require modifying/extending the API to dump all properties + for a message. That should be a relatively small change. + + - it also be useful to be able delete all (key,value) pairs with a given + key. + + - this should really go through the existing caching mechanism used by + e.g. tags, or at least not invalidate that cache. + +[1] id:1463135893-7471-6-git-send-email-david@tethera.net + -- 2.26.2