On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:24 PM Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be> wrote:

> Hi Gaute,
>
> On Thu 08 Oct 2020 at 10:13 +0200, Gaute Hope wrote:
> > I made another attempt at porting lieer to notmuch2, but I am missing the
> > get_directory method still. Any plans to look at it?
>
> Would indeed be good to add this sometime.  I'm still curious to how you
> use it though to make sure we make a good API.  I only found
>
> https://github.com/gauteh/lieer/blob/394d8c1a574fd57e63390e92a6e73363808ebac5/lieer/local.py#L280
> and it seems you only use the `.path` attribute.  Is this correct or did
> I miss anything?
>

That is correct, as well as relying on an exception if the input directory
is not in the notmuch database. I also use `db.get_path()` to figure out
the relative path w.r.t to the database root, for use in `path:` queries (
https://github.com/gauteh/lieer/blob/master/lieer/gmailieer.py#L315).

Regards, Gaute