1835843 - Add wildcard support for messages.query(queryInfo.subject)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: Extensions API, enhancement)

Description

[Mihai]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

Steps to reproduce:

I'm using the messages.query API, and would like to filter by a subject prefix.

Actual results:

The results only include exact matches.

Expected results:

With proper API support, return all matches.

Comment 1

[Mihai]

The existing code in ext-messages.js hints that this might already work:

            // Check subject (substring match).
            if (
              queryInfo.subject &&
              !msg.mime2DecodedSubject.includes(queryInfo.subject)
            ) {
              return false;
            }

Comment 2

[Mihai]

OK, this is embarrassing, but I had double-quotes around the entire expression I was searching by, included in the actual string. Maybe I did that as an experiment (no pun) for the early API four years ago, as discussed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531317#c24

Please feel free to close/delete this bug report.

Comment 3

[Mihai]

(In reply to Mihai from comment #2)

I had double-quotes around the entire expression I was searching by, included in the actual string. Maybe I did that as an experiment (no pun) for the early API four years ago, as discussed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531317#c24

Or maybe that's how things worked in the API at some point... I can't remember.

In any case, it works as expected w/out the embedded quotes.

Comment 4

[John Bieling]

I cannot say something like that never happened to me :-)

Comment 5

[Mihai]

Thanks for understanding. :-)