On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:44:40 +1000 Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> 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? Well, if I ask for a single message, I'd expect to just get a single message. So, $message = $parsed_json, without the extra single-entry arrays. > > 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, "[]")? Yeah, should be "[]". Thanks. -- Mike Kelly -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110129/b19f2056/attachment.pgp>
