lisp/mail/mailheader.el

   1 ;;; mailheader.el --- mail header parsing, merging, formatting
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1996 by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5 ;; Author: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
   6 ;; Keywords: tools, mail, news
   7
   8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   9
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  23 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  24
  25 ;;; Commentary:
  26
  27 ;; This package provides an abstraction to RFC822-style messages, used in
  28 ;; mail, news, and some other systems.  The simple syntactic rules for such
  29 ;; headers, such as quoting and line folding, are routinely reimplemented
  30 ;; in many individual packages.  This package removes the need for this
  31 ;; redundancy by representing message headers as association lists,
  32 ;; offering functions to extract the set of headers from a message, to
  33 ;; parse individual headers, to merge sets of headers, and to format a set
  34 ;; of headers.
  35
  36 ;; The car of each element in the message-header alist is a symbol whose
  37 ;; print name is the name of the header, in all lower-case.  The cdr of an
  38 ;; element depends on the operation.  After extracting headers from a
  39 ;; message, it is a string, the value of the header.  An extracted set of
  40 ;; headers may be parsed further, which may turn it into a list, whose car
  41 ;; is the original value and whose subsequent elements depend on the
  42 ;; header.  For formatting, it is evaluated to obtain the strings to be
  43 ;; inserted.  For merging, one set of headers consists of strings, while
  44 ;; the other set will be evaluated with the symbols in the first set of
  45 ;; headers bound to their respective values.
  46
  47 ;;; Code:
  48
  49 (eval-when-compile
  50   (require 'cl))
  51
  52 ;; Make the byte-compiler shut up.
  53 (defvar headers)
  54
  55 (defun mail-header-extract ()
  56   "Extract headers from current buffer after point.
  57 Returns a header alist, where each element is a cons cell (name . value),
  58 where NAME is a symbol, and VALUE is the string value of the header having
  59 that name."
  60   (let ((message-headers ()) (top (point))
  61         start end)
  62     (while (and (setq start (point))
  63                 (> (skip-chars-forward "^\0- :") 0)
  64                 (= (following-char) ?:)
  65                 (setq end (point))
  66                 (progn (forward-char)
  67                        (> (skip-chars-forward " \t") 0)))
  68       (let ((header (intern (downcase (buffer-substring start end))))
  69             (value (list (buffer-substring
  70                           (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point))))))
  71         (while (progn (forward-char) (> (skip-chars-forward " \t") 0))
  72           (push (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
  73                 value))
  74         (push (if (cdr value)
  75                   (cons header (mapconcat #'identity (nreverse value) " "))
  76                   (cons header (car value)))
  77               message-headers)))
  78     (goto-char top)
  79     (nreverse message-headers)))
  80
  81 (defun mail-header-extract-no-properties ()
  82   "Extract headers from current buffer after point, without properties.
  83 Returns a header alist, where each element is a cons cell (name . value),
  84 where NAME is a symbol, and VALUE is the string value of the header having
  85 that name."
  86   (mapcar
  87    (lambda (elt)
  88      (set-text-properties 0 (length (cdr elt)) nil (cdr elt))
  89      elt)
  90    (mail-header-extract)))
  91
  92 (defun mail-header-parse (parsing-rules headers)
  93   "Apply PARSING-RULES to HEADERS.
  94 PARSING-RULES is an alist whose keys are header names (symbols) and whose
  95 value is a parsing function.  The function takes one argument, a string,
  96 and return a list of values, which will destructively replace the value
  97 associated with the key in HEADERS, after being prepended with the original
  98 value."
  99   (dolist (rule parsing-rules)
 100     (let ((header (assq (car rule) headers)))
 101       (when header
 102         (if (consp (cdr header))
 103             (setf (cddr header) (funcall (cdr rule) (cadr header)))
 104           (setf (cdr header)
 105                 (cons (cdr header) (funcall (cdr rule) (cdr header))))))))
 106   headers)
 107
 108 (defsubst mail-header (header &optional header-alist)
 109   "Return the value associated with header HEADER in HEADER-ALIST.
 110 If the value is a string, it is the original value of the header.  If the
 111 value is a list, its first element is the original value of the header,
 112 with any subsequent elements being the result of parsing the value.
 113 If HEADER-ALIST is nil, the dynamically bound variable `headers' is used."
 114   (cdr (assq header (or header-alist headers))))
 115
 116 (defun mail-header-set (header value &optional header-alist)
 117   "Set the value associated with header HEADER to VALUE in HEADER-ALIST.
 118 HEADER-ALIST defaults to the dynamically bound variable `headers' if nil.
 119 See `mail-header' for the semantics of VALUE."
 120   (let* ((alist (or header-alist headers))
 121         (entry (assq header alist)))
 122     (if entry
 123         (setf (cdr entry) value)
 124         (nconc alist (list (cons header value)))))
 125   value)
 126
 127 (defsetf mail-header (header &optional header-alist) (value)
 128   `(mail-header-set ,header ,value ,header-alist))
 129
 130 (defun mail-header-merge (merge-rules headers)
 131   "Return a new header alist with MERGE-RULES applied to HEADERS.
 132 MERGE-RULES is an alist whose keys are header names (symbols) and whose
 133 values are forms to evaluate, the results of which are the new headers.  It
 134 should be a string or a list of string.  The first element may be nil to
 135 denote that the formatting functions must use the remaining elements, or
 136 skip the header altogether if there are no other elements.
 137   The macro `mail-header' can be used to access headers in HEADERS."
 138   (mapcar
 139    (lambda (rule)
 140      (cons (car rule) (eval (cdr rule))))
 141    merge-rules))
 142
 143 (defvar mail-header-format-function
 144   (lambda (header value)
 145     "Function to format headers without a specified formatting function."
 146     (insert (capitalize (symbol-name header))
 147             ": "
 148             (if (consp value) (car value) value)
 149             "\n")))
 150
 151 (defun mail-header-format (format-rules headers)
 152   "Use FORMAT-RULES to format HEADERS and insert into current buffer.
 153 HEADERS should be an alist of the form (HEADER . VALUE),
 154 where HEADER is a header field name (a symbol or a string),
 155 and VALUE is the contents for that header field.
 156
 157 FORMAT-RULES is an alist of elements (HEADER . FUNCTION) Here HEADER
 158 is a header field name (a symbol), and FUNCTION is how to format that
 159 header field, if it appears in HEADERS.  Each FUNCTION should take two
 160 arguments: the header symbol, and the value of that header.  The value
 161 returned by FUNCTION is inserted in the buffer unless it is nil.
 162
 163 If the function for a header field is nil, or if no function is
 164 specified for a particular header field, the default action is to
 165 insert the value of the header, unless it is nil.
 166
 167 The headers are inserted in the order of the FORMAT-RULES.
 168 A key of t in FORMAT-RULES represents any otherwise unmentioned headers.
 169 A key of nil has as its value a list of defaulted headers to ignore."
 170   (let ((ignore (append (cdr (assq nil format-rules))
 171                         (mapcar #'car format-rules))))
 172     (dolist (rule format-rules)
 173       (let* ((header (car rule))
 174             (value (mail-header header)))
 175         (if (stringp header)
 176             (setq header (intern header)))
 177         (cond ((null header) 'ignore)
 178               ((eq header t)
 179                (dolist (defaulted headers)
 180                  (unless (memq (car defaulted) ignore)
 181                    (let* ((header (car defaulted))
 182                           (value (cdr defaulted)))
 183                      (if (cdr rule)
 184                          (funcall (cdr rule) header value)
 185                        (funcall mail-header-format-function header value))))))
 186               (value
 187                (if (cdr rule)
 188                    (funcall (cdr rule) header value)
 189                  (funcall mail-header-format-function header value))))))
 190     (insert "\n")))
 191
 192 (provide 'mailheader)
 193
 194 ;;; mailheader.el ends here