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author | Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> | 2012-03-06 18:48:43 +0000 |
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committer | David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> | 2012-03-18 09:14:22 -0300 |
commit | b1130bc71c02efb504ad723b56f86618fd186a67 (patch) | |
tree | 2388fd9c836c076df841182a60d9fe586f1e0b6c /man | |
parent | 7e1742a82c4b52f5337d8db53347d547a4ac67b4 (diff) |
show: Convert raw format to the new self-recursive style, properly support interior parts
This is fully compatible for root and leaf parts, but now has proper
support for interior parts. This requires some design decisions that
were guided by what I would want if I were to save a part.
Specifically:
- Leaf parts are printed without headers and with transfer decoding.
This is what makes sense for saving attachments. (Furthermore, the
transfer decoding is necessary since, without the headers, the
caller would not be able to interpret non-transfer-decoded output.)
- Message parts are printed with their message headers, but without
enclosing part headers. This is what makes sense for saving a
message as a whole (which is a message part) and for saving attached
messages. This is symmetric for whole messages and for attached
messages, though we special-case the whole message for performance
reasons (and corner-case correctness reasons: given malformed input,
GMime may not be able to reproduce it from the parsed
representation).
- Multipart parts are printed with their headers and all child parts.
It's not clear what the best thing to do for multipart is, but this
was the most natural to implement and can be justified because such
parts can't be interpreted without their headers.
As an added benefit, we can move the special-case code for part 0 into
the raw formatter.
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