mu/src/mu-query.h

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/*
** Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
**
** This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
** it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
** the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
** (at your option) any later version.
**
** This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
** but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
** GNU General Public License for more details.
**
** You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
** along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
** Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
**
*/
#ifndef __MU_QUERY_H__
#define __MU_QUERY_H__
#include <glib.h>
#include <mu-msg-iter.h>
#include <mu-util.h> /* for MuResult, MuError */
G_BEGIN_DECLS
struct _MuQuery;
typedef struct _MuQuery MuQuery;
/**
* create a new MuQuery instance.
*
* @param path path to the xapian db to search
* @param err receives error information (if there is any); if
* function returns non-NULL, err will _not_be set. err can be NULL
* possble errors (err->code) are MU_ERROR_XAPIAN_DIR and
* MU_ERROR_XAPIAN_NOT_UPTODATE
*
* @return a new MuQuery instance, or NULL in case of error.
* when the instance is no longer needed, use mu_query_destroy
* to free it
*/
MuQuery *mu_query_new (const char* path, GError **err)
G_GNUC_MALLOC G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
/**
* destroy the MuQuery instance
*
* @param self a MuQuery instance, or NULL
*/
void mu_query_destroy (MuQuery *self);
/**
* get a version string for the database
*
* @param store a valid MuQuery
*
* @return the version string (free with g_free), or NULL in case of error
*/
char* mu_query_version (MuQuery *store)
G_GNUC_MALLOC G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
/**
* run a Xapian query; for the syntax, please refer to the mu-find
* manpage, or http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html
*
* @param self a valid MuQuery instance
* @param expr the search expression
* @param threads calculate message-threads
* @param sortfield the field id to sort by or MU_MSG_FIELD_ID_NONE if
* sorting is not desired
* @param ascending if TRUE sort in ascending (A-Z) order, otherwise,
* sort in descending (Z-A) order
* @param err receives error information (if there is any); if
* function returns non-NULL, err will _not_be set. err can be NULL
* possible error (err->code) is MU_ERROR_QUERY,
*
* @return a MuMsgIter instance you can iterate over, or NULL in
* case of error
*/
MuMsgIter* mu_query_run (MuQuery *self, const char* expr, gboolean threads,
MuMsgFieldId sortfieldid, gboolean ascending,
GError **err)
G_GNUC_MALLOC G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
/**
* get a string representation of the Xapian search query
*
* @param self a MuQuery instance
* @param searchexpr a xapian search expression
* @param err receives error information (if there is any); if
* function returns non-NULL, err will _not_be set. err can be NULL
*
* @return the string representation of the xapian query, or NULL in case of
* error; free the returned value with g_free
*/
char* mu_query_as_string (MuQuery *self, const char* searchexpr, GError **err)
G_GNUC_MALLOC G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
/**
* pre-process the query; this function is useful mainly for debugging mu
*
* @param query a query string
*
* @return a pre-processed query, free it with g_free
*/
char* mu_query_preprocess (const char *query)
G_GNUC_MALLOC G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
G_END_DECLS
#endif /*__MU_QUERY_H__*/