While implementing the overdue search, I realised it would be nice to
be able to construct a search string with OR and NOT searches without
having to construct each part individually with build_search_string().
Changes:
- Extends SearchTerm to support a text search, which will be parsed
by the backend. This allows us to do things like wrap text in a group
or NOT node.
- Because SearchTerm->Node conversion can now fail with a parsing error,
it's switched over to TryFrom
- Switch concatenate_searches and replace_search_term to use SearchTerms,
so that they too don't require separate string building steps.
- Remove the unused normalize_search()
- Remove negate_search, as this is now an operation on a Node, and
users can wrap their search in SearchTerm(negated=...)
- Remove the match_any and negate args from build_search_string
Having done all this work, I've just realised that perhaps the original
JSON idea was more feasible than I first thought - if we wrote it out
to a string and re-parsed it, we would be able to leverage the existing
checks that occur at parsing stage.
The progress messages are only really intended to be consumed by Anki.
If consumption by add-ons was expected, we'd be better off keeping the
wrapper, as the API for oneofs in Python is quite awkward to use.
While mypy can understand nested references like ConfigBool.Key.COLLAPSE_RECENT,
PyCharm doesn't understand the metaclass syntax, and shows the definitions
as invalid.
- anki._backend stores the protobuf files and rsbackend.py code
- pylib modules import protobuf messages directly from the
_pb2 files, and explicitly export any will be returned or consumed
by public pylib functions, so that calling code can import from pylib
- the "rsbackend" no longer imports and re-exports protobuf messages
- pylib can just consume them directly.
- move errors to errors.py
Still todo:
- rsbridge
- finishing the work on rsbackend, and check what we need to add
back to the original file location to avoid breaking add-ons
- IdList could be re-used for a cids: search in the future if required.
- Embedding the message means it's easy to access from Python as
an attribute of SearchTerm.
- use the TimestampSecs newtype instead of raw i64s
- use FixedOffset instead of a minutes_west offset
- check localOffset each time the timing is calculated, and set it
if it's stale - even for v1.
- check for and fix missing rollover when calculating timing
- stop explicitly passing localOffset in the sync/start call
If the client's clock is behind AnkiWeb's, even by a few seconds,
we can end up with a situation where last_begin_at is updated after
the sync to a value less than the mtime we received from AnkiWeb,
causing the collection to be saved, which bumps the modtime.
Work around this by recording mtime at begin() time, and seeing if it
has changed in either direction.
Thanks to Rumo, who did the hard work looking into it:
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/why-is-my-sync-button-blue/2078/21
the change that caused it:
https://github.com/dropbox/mypy-protobuf/issues/118
This is more awkward to handle now, as the types are only available
at type-checking time. Python's static typing is such a mess :-(
Saves having to serialize the note fields and q/a templates, which
is particularly a win when rendering question/answer in the browse
screen.
Also some work towards being able to preview notes without having to
commit them to the database.
- notes with wrong field count are now recovered instead of
being deleted
- notes with missing note types are now recovered
- notes with missing cards are now recovered
- recover_missing_deck() still needs implementing
- checks required
- notetypes are fetched from the DB as needed, and cached in Python
- handle note type changes in the backend. Multiple operations can now
be performed in one go, but this is not currently exposed in the GUI.
- extra methods to grab sorted note type names quickly, and fetch by
name
- col.models.save() without a provided notetype is now a no-op
- note loading/saving handled in the backend
- notes with no valid cards can now be added
- templates can now be deleted even if they would previously
orphan notes
a number of fixmes have been left in notes.py and models.py
- mtime is tracked on each key individually, which will allow
merging of config changes when syncing in the future
- added col.(get|set|remove)_config()
- in order to support existing code that was mutating returned
values (eg col.conf["something"]["another"] = 5), the returned list/dict
will be automatically wrapped so that when the value is dropped, it
will save the mutated item back to the DB if it's changed. Code that
is fetching lists/dicts from the config like so:
col.conf["foo"]["bar"] = baz
col.setMod()
will continue to work in most case, but should be gradually updated to:
conf = col.get_config("foo")
conf["bar"] = baz
col.set_config("foo", conf)
Disabled for now; when enabled it will allow faster collection
open and close in the normal case, while continuing to downgrade
when exporting or doing a full sync.
Also, when downgrading is disabled, the journal mode is no longer
changed back to delete.
- tag list stored in a separate DB table
- non-wildcard searches now do full unicode case folding
(eg tag:masse matches 'Maße')
- wildcard matches do simple unicode case folding
- some functions haven't been updated yet, so ascii folding will
continue to be used in some operations
