lib/load_config: document expectations for db on error, add tests

[notmuch] / lib / notmuch.h

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 546643e80cbb66364b2502f6b8046291959d9d8b..5c5a024e41defb04968357f1a0a999c6ae7faf45 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ NOTMUCH_BEGIN_DECLS
  * version in Makefile.local.
  */
 #define LIBNOTMUCH_MAJOR_VERSION        5
-#define LIBNOTMUCH_MINOR_VERSION        4
+#define LIBNOTMUCH_MINOR_VERSION        5
 #define LIBNOTMUCH_MICRO_VERSION        0
 
 
@@ -433,6 +433,8 @@ notmuch_database_open_verbose (const char *path,
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_NULL_POINTER: The given \a database
  * argument is NULL.
  *
+ * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_NO_CONFIG: No config file was found. Fatal.
+ *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_OUT_OF_MEMORY: Out of memory.
  *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_ERROR: An error occurred trying to open the
@@ -458,6 +460,9 @@ notmuch_database_open_with_config (const char *database_path,
  *
  * For description of arguments, @see notmuch_database_open_with_config
  *
+ * For errors other then NO_DATABASE and NO_CONFIG, *database is set to
+ * NULL.
+ *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully loaded configuration.
  *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_NO_CONFIG: No config file was loaded. Not fatal.
@@ -489,6 +494,9 @@ notmuch_database_load_config (const char *database_path,
  *
  * For description of arguments, @see notmuch_database_open_with_config
  *
+ * In case of any failure, this function returns an error status and
+ * sets *database to NULL.
+ *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully created the database.
  *
  * @retval NOTMUCH_STATUS_DATABASE_EXISTS: Database already exists, not created