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24 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:59:45 -0500
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25 From: Mike Kelly <pioto@pioto.org>
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27 Subject: Re: About the json output and the number of results shown.
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56 On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:44:40 +1000
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57 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
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59 > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:39:45 +0000, Mike Kelly <pioto@pioto.org>
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61 > > For starters, if I'm simply trying to retrieve a single message, the
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62 > > interface is rather awkard. I seem to need to do something like:
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64 > > my $json =3D `notmuch show --format=3Djson id:$message_id`;
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65 > > my $parsed_json =3D decode_json($json);
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66 > > my $message =3D $parsed_json->[0][0][0];
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68 > That does seem fairly awkward, yes. Do you have a suggestion for how
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69 > you'd like the output to be structured instead?
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71 Well, if I ask for a single message, I'd expect to just get a single
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72 message. So, $message =3D $parsed_json, without the extra single-entry
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75 > > And, when I'm doing my search earlier to even find those message
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76 > > ids, I need to do a check to `notmuch count` first to see if I'll
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77 > > even get any results, because the 0 result case is not valid JSON.
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79 > Yikes! That's a bug in notmuch that we should get fixed rather than
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80 > you just working around it. I just started adding a test for this
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83 > notmuch search --format=3Djson "string that matches nothing"
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85 > returns nothing. Presumably, this should return just an empty json
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86 > array instead, (that is, "[]")?
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88 Yeah, should be "[]".
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