Re: [PATCH 6/6] extmsg: fall back to partial Message-ID matching

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> In case a URL gets truncated (as is common with long URLs),
> we can rely on Xapian for partial matches and bring the user
> to their destination.

Note: this is a bit half-assed and does not work when Message-IDs
is broken into multiple terms (common).

Perhaps a prefix trie is necessary; but a good on-disk one does
not seem to readily exist in Debian (or anywhere) for Perl?
Oh well, this is a rare feature.

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
index 243b6ba..77537c2 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ sub ext_msg {
 		unshift @pfx, { srch => $ctx->{srch}, url => $url };
 		foreach my $pfx (@pfx) {
 			my $srch = delete $pfx->{srch} or next;
+
+			# FIXME we may need a proper prefix trie here...
 			if (my $res = $srch->mid_prefix($mid)) {
 				$n_partial += scalar(@$res);
 				$pfx->{res} = $res;