/* Find a message with the given message_id.
*
- * If the database contains a message with the given message_id, then
- * a new notmuch_message_t object is returned. The caller should call
- * notmuch_message_destroy when done with the message.
+ * If a message with the given message_id is found then, on successful return
+ * (NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS) '*message' will be initialized to a message
+ * object. The caller should call notmuch_message_destroy when done with the
+ * message.
*
- * This function returns NULL in the following situations:
+ * On any failure or when the message is not found, this function initializes
+ * '*message' to NULL. This means, when NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS is returned, the
+ * caller is supposed to check '*message' for NULL to find out whether the
+ * message with the given message_id was found.
*
- * * No message is found with the given message_id
- * * An out-of-memory situation occurs
- * * A Xapian exception occurs
+ * Return value:
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successful return, check '*message'.
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_NULL_POINTER: The given 'message' argument is NULL
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_OUT_OF_MEMORY: Out of memory, creating message object
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION: A Xapian exception occurred
*/
-notmuch_message_t *
+notmuch_status_t
notmuch_database_find_message (notmuch_database_t *database,
- const char *message_id);
+ const char *message_id,
+ notmuch_message_t **message);
/* Find a message with the given filename.
*
- * If the database contains a message with the given filename, then a
- * new notmuch_message_t object is returned. The caller should call
- * notmuch_message_destroy when done with the message.
+ * If the database contains a message with the given filename then, on
+ * successful return (NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS) '*message' will be initialized to
+ * a message object. The caller should call notmuch_message_destroy when done
+ * with the message.
*
- * This function returns NULL in the following situations:
+ * On any failure or when the message is not found, this function initializes
+ * '*message' to NULL. This means, when NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS is returned, the
+ * caller is supposed to check '*message' for NULL to find out whether the
+ * message with the given filename is found.
*
- * * No message is found with the given filename
- * * An out-of-memory situation occurs
- * * A Xapian exception occurs
+ * Return value:
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successful return, check '*message'
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_NULL_POINTER: The given 'message' argument is NULL
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_OUT_OF_MEMORY: Out of memory, creating the message object
+ *
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION: A Xapian exception occurred
*/
-notmuch_message_t *
+notmuch_status_t
notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
- const char *filename);
+ const char *filename,
+ notmuch_message_t **message);
/* Return a list of all tags found in the database.
*