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* sprinter: add text0 formatter for null character separated textGravatar Jani Nikula2012-12-18
| | | | | Same as the text formatter, but with each field separated by a null character rather than a newline character.
* sprinter: clarify separator documentationGravatar Jani Nikula2012-12-18
| | | | For text printers, the separator is a syntactic element.
* Adding an S-expression structured output printer.Gravatar Peter Feigl2012-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a structured output printer for Lisp S-Expressions. Later commits will use this printer in notmuch search, show and reply. The structure is the same as json, but: - arrays are written as lists: ("foo" "bar" "baaz" 1 2 3) - maps are written as p-lists: (:key "value" :other-key "other-value") - true is written as t - false is written as nil - null is written as nil [ whitespace changes by db ]
* sprinters: bugfix when NULL passed for a string.Gravatar Mark Walters2012-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | The string function in a sprinter may be called with a NULL string pointer (eg if a header is absent). This causes a segfault. We fix this by checking for a null pointer in the string functions and update the sprinter documentation. At the moment some output when format=text is done directly rather than via an sprinter: in that case a null pointer is passed to printf or similar and a "(null)" appears in the output. That behaviour is not changed in this patch.
* sprinter: Add a string_len methodGravatar Austin Clements2012-08-03
| | | | | | | This method allows callers to output strings with specific lengths. It's useful both for strings with embedded NULs (which JSON can represent, though parser support is apparently spotty), and non-terminated strings.
* Add structured output formatter for JSON and plain text (but don't use them ↵Gravatar craven@gmx.net2012-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | yet). Using the new structured printer support in sprinter.h, implement sprinter_json_create, which returns a new JSON structured output formatter. The formatter prints output similar to the existing JSON, but with differences in whitespace (mostly newlines, --output=summary prints the entire message summary on one line, not split across multiple lines). Also implement a "structured" formatter for plain text that prints prefixed strings, to be used with notmuch-search.c plain text output.
* Add support for structured output formatters.Gravatar craven@gmx.net2012-07-24
This patch adds a new struct type sprinter_t, which is used for structured formatting, e.g. JSON or S-Expressions. The structure printer is heavily based on code from Austin Clements (id:87d34hsdx8.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu). It includes the following functions: /* Start a new map/dictionary structure. This should be followed by * a sequence of alternating calls to map_key and one of the * value-printing functions until the map is ended by end. */ void (*begin_map) (struct sprinter *); /* Start a new list/array structure. */ void (*begin_list) (struct sprinter *); /* End the last opened list or map structure. */ void (*end) (struct sprinter *); /* Print one string/integer/boolean/null element (possibly inside a * list or map, followed or preceded by separators). * For string, the char * must be UTF-8 encoded. */ void (*string) (struct sprinter *, const char *); void (*integer) (struct sprinter *, int); void (*boolean) (struct sprinter *, notmuch_bool_t); void (*null) (struct sprinter *); /* Print the key of a map's key/value pair. The char * must be UTF-8 * encoded. */ void (*map_key) (struct sprinter *, const char *); /* Insert a separator (usually extra whitespace) for improved * readability without affecting the abstract syntax of the * structure being printed. * For JSON, this could simply be a line break. */ void (*separator) (struct sprinter *); /* Set the current string prefix. This only affects the text * printer, which will print this string, followed by a colon, * before any string. For other printers, this does nothing. */ void (*set_prefix) (struct sprinter *, const char *); To support the plain text format properly, the following additional function must also be implemented: /* Set the current string prefix. This only affects the text * printer, which will print this string, followed by a colon, * before any string. For other printers, this does nothing. */ void (*set_prefix) (struct sprinter *, const char *); The structure also contains a flag that should be set to FALSE in all custom printers and to TRUE in the plain text formatter. /* True if this is the special-cased plain text printer. */ notmuch_bool_t is_text_printer; The printer can (and should) use internal state to insert delimiters and syntax at the correct places. Example: format->begin_map(format); format->map_key(format, "foo"); format->begin_list(format); format->integer(format, 1); format->integer(format, 2); format->integer(format, 3); format->end(format); format->map_key(format, "bar"); format->begin_map(format); format->map_key(format, "baaz"); format->string(format, "hello world"); format->end(format); format->end(format); would output JSON as follows: {"foo": [1, 2, 3], "bar": { "baaz": "hello world"}}