Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes:
> 1) Returning large attachments in get_mail_log() would be fairly
> surprising to existing users of that interface; it should really return
> some kind of record of the MIME structure which could then be retrieved
> using a second interface
>
> 2) MIME messages are much more complicated than just a list of
> attachments; there could be additional messages with more attachments
> within them
The most simple way would be to handle any attachment like a
message. 'header' would be the two lines 'Content-Type' and
'Content-Transfer-Encoding'. Every attachment would get a unique message
number, like the messages themselves. 'get_bug_log' shall support the
second argument $msg_num (which is still could be optional), in order to
retrieve the bodies of attachments.
We would have then
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
=head2 get_bug_log
my $bug_log = get_bug_log($bug);
my $bug_log = get_bug_log($bug,$msg_num);
Returns a parsed set of the bug log; this is an array of hashes with
the following
[{header => '...',
body => '...',
attachments => [11, 15, 20],
msg_num => 5,
},
{header => '...',
body => '...',
attachments => [],
msg_num => 8,
},
]
=cut
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Alternatively, we could have a structure in the attachments with just
'header' and 'msg_num', like
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[{header => '...',
body => '...',
attachments => [{header => '...',
msg_num => 11,
},
header => '...',
msg_num => 15,
},
{header => '...',
msg_num => 20,
},
],
msg_num => 5,
},
{header => '...',
body => '...',
attachments => [],
msg_num => 8,
},
]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
What do you think?
Best regards, Michael.
