emacs: Improve error handling for notmuch-call-notmuch-json

[notmuch] / emacs / notmuch-lib.el

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
index 92c8417a9c8bb18a972f5d4a23be152854f70dd0..dd2c78baeca928b1b8e239e1e2484d4068de49ac 100644 (file)
--- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
@@ -371,6 +371,28 @@ contents of ERR-FILE will be included in the error message."
     ;; Mimic `process-lines'
     (error "%s exited with status %s" (car command) exit-status))))
 
+(defun notmuch-call-notmuch-json (&rest args)
+  "Invoke `notmuch-command' with `args' and return the parsed JSON output.
+
+The returned output will represent objects using property lists
+and arrays as lists.  If notmuch exits with a non-zero status,
+this will pop up a buffer containing notmuch's output and signal
+an error."
+
+  (with-temp-buffer
+    (let ((err-file (make-temp-file "nmerr")))
+      (unwind-protect
+         (let ((status (apply #'call-process
+                              notmuch-command nil (list t err-file) nil args)))
+           (notmuch-check-exit-status status (cons notmuch-command args)
+                                      (buffer-string) err-file)
+           (goto-char (point-min))
+           (let ((json-object-type 'plist)
+                 (json-array-type 'list)
+                 (json-false 'nil))
+             (json-read)))
+       (delete-file err-file)))))
+
 ;; Compatibility functions for versions of emacs before emacs 23.
 ;;
 ;; Both functions here were copied from emacs 23 with the following copyright: