On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:39:45 +0000, Mike Kelly <pioto at pioto.org> wrote: > For starters, if I'm simply trying to retrieve a single message, the > interface is rather awkard. I seem to need to do something like: > > my $json = `notmuch show --format=json id:$message_id`; > my $parsed_json = decode_json($json); > my $message = $parsed_json->[0][0][0];
That does seem fairly awkward, yes. Do you have a suggestion for how you'd like the output to be structured instead? > And, when I'm doing my search earlier to even find those message ids, I > need to do a check to `notmuch count` first to see if I'll even get any > results, because the 0 result case is not valid JSON. Yikes! That's a bug in notmuch that we should get fixed rather than you just working around it. I just started adding a test for this case. Currently: notmuch search --format=json "string that matches nothing" returns nothing. Presumably, this should return just an empty json array instead, (that is, "[]")? -Carl -- carl.d.worth at intel.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110129/f649abb3/attachment.pgp>