make parse_user_query_string raise exceptions on error

I.e. instead of flashing an error message. This makes it usable from
non-curses contexts, e.g. sup-tweak-labels.

diff --git a/lib/sup/index.rb b/lib/sup/index.rb
index 7642e08b2916d202693041185c88ec9e74491a7b..8c9ddc86a1092b385885abcf7bf4f1d31361843a 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sup/index.rb
+++ b/lib/sup/index.rb
@@ -485,8 +485,12 @@ EOS
 
 protected
 
-  ## do any specialized parsing
-  ## returns nil and flashes error message if parsing failed
+  class ParseError < StandardError; end
+
+  ## parse a query string from the user. returns a query object and a set of
+  ## extra flags; both of these are meant to be passed to #build_query.
+  ##
+  ## raises a ParseError if something went wrong.
   def parse_user_query_string s
     extraopts = {}
 
@@ -548,11 +552,9 @@ protected
     end
 
     if $have_chronic
-      chronic_failure = false
       subs = subs.gsub(/\b(before|on|in|during|after):(\((.+?)\)\B|(\S+)\b)/) do
-        break if chronic_failure
         field, datestr = $1, ($3 || $4)
-        realdate = Chronic.parse(datestr, :guess => false, :context => :past)
+        realdate = Chronic.parse datestr, :guess => false, :context => :past
         if realdate
           case field
           when "after"
@@ -566,11 +568,9 @@ protected
             "date:(<= #{sprintf "%012d", realdate.end.to_i}) date:(>= #{sprintf "%012d", realdate.begin.to_i})"
           end
         else
-          BufferManager.flash "Can't understand date #{datestr.inspect}!"
-          chronic_failure = true
+          raise ParseError, "can't understand date #{datestr.inspect}"
         end
       end
-      subs = nil if chronic_failure
     end
 
     ## limit:42 restrict the search to 42 results
@@ -580,15 +580,14 @@ protected
         extraopts[:limit] = lim.to_i
         ''
       else
-        BufferManager.flash "Can't understand limit #{lim.inspect}!"
-        subs = nil
+        raise ParseError, "non-numeric limit #{lim.inspect}"
       end
     end
     
-    if subs
+    begin
       [@qparser.parse(subs), extraopts]
-    else
-      nil
+    rescue Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException => e
+      raise ParseError, e.message
     end
   end
 

diff --git a/lib/sup/modes/search-results-mode.rb b/lib/sup/modes/search-results-mode.rb
index 6fdc58a0c9da1f0df907ce8e29d786a36db9b4d7..227ee9ba7f7a469ed751a45a9bcc52a767c697b9 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sup/modes/search-results-mode.rb
+++ b/lib/sup/modes/search-results-mode.rb
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ class SearchResultsMode < ThreadIndexMode
       mode = SearchResultsMode.new qobj, extraopts
       BufferManager.spawn "search: \"#{short_text}\"", mode
       mode.load_threads :num => mode.buffer.content_height
-    rescue Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException => e
-      BufferManager.flash "Couldn't parse query."
+    rescue Index::ParseError => e
+      BufferManager.flash "Problem: #{e.message}!"
     end
   end
 end