Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] reply: Add a JSON reply format.

[Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca>]

Thanks for the review. The style nits are things I missed in my
previous cleanup, so thanks for pointing them out. I should probably
run uncrustify and see if it complains about anything else.

The other points are definitely up for discussion, and some are areas
where I was unsure to start with. Discussion inline:

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 04:50, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +    /* We only care about inline text parts for reply purposes */
>> +    if (reply_check_part_type (part, "text", "*", GMIME_DISPOSITION_INLINE)) {
>
> This seems to be different from the logic in the text output: I think
> that inlines all text/* regardless of disposition. I think the JSON
> output should include at least as much as the text output as it is easy
> for the caller to discard parts.

Indeed, the text output includes all text/* parts except for
text/html, regardless of disposition. My thought was that it doesn't
really make sense to quote an attachment, or at least it's not the
behavior I would expect. But, perhaps it makes more sense to include
all the text parts, with their dispositions, and let the MUA decide
what it wants to quote. If anyone has thoughts on this I'm happy to
hear them.

> Does wrapper need to a free/unref somewhere?

The text format doesn't free or unref wrapper, so I followed its
example. But, I'm not a gmime expert, and I agree intuitively that it
should be freed somehow. Can anyone enlighten me?

> If replying to multiple messages (such as a whole thread) you get
> multiple sets of "new headers". I think that probably is not what is
> wanted but its still better than the weird things the text version
> does. Might be worth putting a comment. [What I think should happen is
> that a union of all the headers from all these is taken throwing away
> duplicate addresses but that is obviously not part of this patch set]

I've never been sure about what the intended behavior is when replying
to multiple messages in the CLI. My thought was that it should create
a reply to each message, so an MUA could iterate over them allowing
you to compose replies to multiple messages. But, I've never wanted or
used such a feature, so I'm agnostic on whether it's right. The emacs
MUA (at least with my patch) ignores all but the first reply object in
the array, my assumption being that reply only operates on multiple
messages by accident.

Does anyone use reply with multiple messages? If so, what semantics do
you expect?