# Copyright (C) 2016 all contributors # License: GPL-2.0+ # Non-recursive, container-agnostic message threading. # # Usage is typically: # # * use Msgthr.new to create a new object # * use Msgthr#add! for every message you have # * use Msgthr#thread! to perform threading and (optionally) sort # * use Msgthr#walk_thread to iterate through the threaded tree # # See https://80x24.org/msgthr/README for more info # You may email us publically at mailto:msgthr-public@80x24.org # Archives are at https://80x24.org/msgthr-public/ class Msgthr # an Array of root (parent-less) messages, only populated after # calling Msgthr#thread! attr_reader :rootset # raised when methods are called in an unsupported order StateError = Class.new(RuntimeError) # Initialize a Msgthr object def initialize @id_table = {} @rootset = [] @state = :init # :init => :threaded => :ordered end # Clear internal data structures to save memory and prepare for reuse def clear @rootset.clear @id_table.clear @state = :init end # Performs threading on the messages and returns the rootset # (set of message containers without parents). # # Call this only after all #add operations are complete. # # If given an optional block, it will perform an in-place sort # using the block parameter. # # To thread and sort by unique +mid+ identifiers for each container: # # msgthr.thread! { |ary| ary.sort_by!(&:mid) } # # If your opaque message pointer contains a +time+ accessor which gives # a Time object: # # msgthr.thread! do |ary| # ary.sort_by! do |cont| # Msgthr::Container # cur = cont.topmost # cur ? cur.msg.time : Time.at(0) # end # end # # Note, using Msgthr::Container#topmost is NOT necessary when accessing # Msgthr::Container#mid, as any known missing messages (ghosts) # will still have a +mid+. However, Msgthr::Container#topmost is # necessary if accessing Msgthr::Container#msg. def thread! raise StateError, "already #@state" if @state != :init ret = @rootset @id_table.each_value { |cont| ret << cont if cont.parent.nil? }.clear @state = :threaded order! { |ary| yield(ary) } if block_given? ret end # Calling this method is unnecessary since msgthr 1.1.0. # In previous releases, the #thread! did not support a block # parameter for ordering. This method remains for compatibility. def order! case @state when :init then raise StateError, "#thread! not called" when :ordered then raise StateError, "already #@state" # else @state == :threaded end yield @rootset @rootset.each do |cont| # this calls Msgthr::Container#order!, which is non-recursive cont.order! { |children| yield(children) } end @state = :ordered @rootset end # non-recursively walk a set of messages after #thread! # (and optionally, #order!). # # If you do not care about ordering, you may call this # immediately after all #add operations are complete starting # with msgthr 1.1.0 # # This takes a block and yields 3 elements to it: +|level, container, index|+ # for each message container. # # * +level+ is the current depth within the walk (non-negative Integer) # * +container+ is the Msgthr::Container object # * +index+ is the offset of the container within its level (starting at 0) # # To display the subject of each message with indentation, # assuming your +msg+ pointer has a +subject+ field: # # msgthr.walk_thread do |level, container, index| # msg = container.msg # subject = msg ? msg.subject : "[missing: <#{container.mid}>]" # indent = ' ' * level # printf("#{indent} % 3d. %s\n", index, subject) # end def walk_thread thread! if @state == :init order! { |_| } if @state == :threaded i = -1 q = @rootset.map { |cont| [ 0, cont, i += 1 ] } while tmp = q.shift level, cont, idx = tmp yield(level, cont, idx) level += 1 i = -1 q = cont.children.map { |cld| [ level, cld, i += 1 ] }.concat(q) end end # Adds a message to prepare a Msgthr object for threading. # # * +mid+ is a unique identifier for the message in a given thread. # It is typically a String or Integer, but may be anything usable # as a Hash key in Ruby. # # * +refs+ should be an Array of unique identifiers belonging # to ancestors of the current message. # For mail and news messages, this is usually the parsed result # of the "References:" header. Order should be oldest to newest # in terms of ancestry, with the last element being the # immediate parent of the given message. # # This is +nil+ for messages with no parent (root messages). # # * +msg+ is an opaque object which typically contains a # Mail or Tmail object for handling mail. # # If +mid+ is a String, it is recommended to freeze the string before # calling this method to avoid wasting memory on hash keys. Likewise # is true for any String objects in +refs+. # # Adding a message could link 2 messages in Msgthr, # by making one message a child of the other. # It's possible to have a callback called when a child is added # by passing a block to this method. # This block can access the child and parent messages. E.g. # # msgthr.add(0, nil, '0') # msgthr.add(1, [0], '1') do |parent, child| # puts "#{parent.mid} -> #{child.mid}" # end def add(mid, refs, msg) # :yields: parent, child @state == :init or raise StateError, "cannot add when already #@state" cur = @id_table[mid] ||= Msgthr::Container.new(mid) cur.msg = msg refs or return # n.b. centralized messaging systems (e.g. forums) do not need # multiple References:, only decentralized systems need it to # tolerate missing messages prev = nil refs.each do |ref| cont = @id_table[ref] ||= Msgthr::Container.new(ref) # link refs together in order implied, # but do not change existing links or loop if prev && !cont.parent && !cont.has_descendent(prev) prev.add_child(cont) yield(prev, cont) if block_given? end prev = cont end # set parent of this message to be the last element in refs if prev && !cur.has_descendent(prev) prev.add_child(cur) yield(prev, cur) if block_given? end end end require_relative 'msgthr/container'