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  37 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:53:12 -0500\r
  38 From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
  39 To: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>\r
  40 Subject: Re: notmuch as a shared object aka library knigge\r
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  77 Quoth Justus Winter on Feb 21 at  1:29 am:\r
  78 > Hi fellow notmuchrs,\r
  79 > \r
  80 > while going through the python bindings I recently came across the\r
  81 > following note in the documentation for the Database.get_directory\r
  82 > function [0]:\r
  83 > \r
  84 > ~~~ snip ~~~\r
  85 > Warning\r
  86 > \r
  87 > This call needs a writable database in Database.MODE.READ_WRITE\r
  88 > mode. The underlying library will exit the program if this method is\r
  89 > used on a read-only database!\r
  90 > ~~~ snap ~~~\r
  91 \r
  92 This is a bug and should be thought of as such.  INTERNAL_ERROR should\r
  93 only be used for internal library inconsistencies (e.g., things that\r
  94 should never ever happen) and the fact that it's leaking out here (and\r
  95 easy to trigger) is simply a mistake.\r
  96 \r
  97 This hasn't been fixed because it derives from an interface flaw.\r
  98 What should notmuch_database_get_directory do on a read-only database?\r
  99 It's specified to *create* the directory document if it doesn't exist,\r
 100 which is the problem.  We could of course bandage this up and make it\r
 101 return an error if you request a non-existent directory on a read-only\r
 102 database, but that's an inconsistent interface.  I think we were\r
 103 hoping to tweak the interface so you can tell it whether or not you\r
 104 want to create the directory, independent of the database being\r
 105 read/write or read-only, but no one has gotten around to that.  As\r
 106 always, patches welcome!\r