util: Function to parse boolean term queries

This parses the subset of Xapian's boolean term quoting rules that are
used by make_boolean_term.  This is provided as a generic string
utility, but will be used shortly in notmuch restore to parse and
optimize for ID queries.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util/string-util.h b/util/string-util.h
index 719c276a..0194607e 100644
--- a/util/string-util.h
+++ b/util/string-util.h
@@ -34,4 +34,20 @@ char *strtok_len (char *s, const char *delim, size_t *len);
 int make_boolean_term (void *talloc_ctx, const char *prefix, const char *term,
 		       char **buf, size_t *len);
 
+/* Parse a boolean term query consisting of a prefix, a colon, and a
+ * term that may be quoted as described for make_boolean_term.  If the
+ * term is not quoted, then it ends at the first whitespace or close
+ * parenthesis.  str may containing leading or trailing whitespace,
+ * but anything else is considered a parse error.  This is compatible
+ * with anything produced by make_boolean_term, and supports a subset
+ * of the quoting styles supported by Xapian (and hence notmuch).
+ * *prefix_out and *term_out will be talloc'd with context ctx.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, -1 on error.  errno will be set to EINVAL if
+ * there is a parse error or ENOMEM if there is an allocation failure.
+ */
+int
+parse_boolean_term (void *ctx, const char *str,
+		    char **prefix_out, char **term_out);
+
 #endif