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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Kmail API?
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-08-03 10:44:36
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It's good that you can use the qt datatypes.

Hans maybe we can get back to this after a stable version of KMail is 
released? It's just that bug fixing is taking up a lot of my time now...

BFN,
Don.

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Hans Dijkema wrote:
> Don,
>
> OK to me, I don't know the internals of kmail (don't want to
> right now).
>
> So you propose:
> >     bool existFolder(char* folderPath);
> >     bool createFolder(char* folderPath);
> >
> >     int    searchFolder(char* folderPath); // what is the int return for
> > here?
>
> In this setup, the previous function isn't nessecary.
>
> > // normally would use Qt datatype but I guess istream and FILE* are ok.
> >     bool addMessage(char* folderPath,istream & message);
> >     bool addMessage(char* folderPath,FILE *message);
>
> Qt datatype is OK to me too. I don't know which one to use though.
> istream isn't nessecary.
>
> > //    bool addMessage(char* folderPath,string & message);  can't do this
> > //                                              because of the string
> > argument
>
> OK no problem.
>
> >     bool addMessage(ichar* folderPath,const char *message);
> > // for addMessage the message should be local8bit encoded.
>
> No problem I think, I would make it
>
> bool addMessage(const char *folder,const char *message).
>
> ==> Hey, does folderPath mean "$HOME/Mail/folder/subfolder..."
>       Or "folder/subfolder..."
>
> best regards,
> Hans
>
> Op Mon, 31 Jul 2000, schreef Don Sanders:
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Hans Dijkema wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I would be very interested in a kmail API to the
> > > tree and message stores of kmail. It would be
> > > of great support for kmailcvt to have a call
> > > like
> > >
> > >    bool existFolder(string folder);
> > >    bool createFolder(string folder);
> > >    int    searchFolder(string folder);
> > >
> > >    bool addMessage(int folderHandle,istream & message);
> > >    bool addMessage(int folderHandle,FILE *message);
> > >    bool addMessage(int folderHandle,string & message);
> > >    bool addMessage(int folderHandle,const char *message);
> > >
> > > Could this be added to kmail?
> >
> > I'm cool with that but I think we have problems with the datatypes. KMail
> > doesn't use the stl, I don't want to use 'string' as a data type. Also
> > I'm not sure about these 'int folderHandle'. I think we want to use char*
> > folderPath where folderPath is the file name of the mail folder to be
> > operated on.
> >
> > So I think this would be better:
> >
> >     bool existFolder(char* folderPath);
> >     bool createFolder(char* folderPath);
> >     int    searchFolder(char* folderPath); // what is the int return for
> > here?
> >
> > // normally would use Qt datatype but I guess istream and FILE* are ok.
> >     bool addMessage(char* folderPath,istream & message);
> >     bool addMessage(char* folderPath,FILE *message);
> > //    bool addMessage(char* folderPath,string & message);  can't do this
> > //                                              because of the string
> > argument bool addMessage(ichar* folderPath,const char *message);
> > // for addMessage the message should be local8bit encoded.
> >
> > and Waldo is right of course we will use dcop for this.
> >
> > > Thanks in advance for answers,
> > > Hans Dijkema

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