Method readNote

cmdtools/cmdlinetool.cpp:620–667

Read a note via the command line and extract the text contents.

// Read a note via the command line and extract the text
// contents.
int CmdLineTool::readNote(StartupConfig config) {
    bool useCrossMemory = true;

    // Look to see if another NixNote is running.  If so, then we
    // expect a response.  Otherwise, we do it ourself.
    global.sharedMemory->unlock();
    global.sharedMemory->detach();
    if (!global.sharedMemory->attach()) {
        useCrossMemory = false;
    }
    if (useCrossMemory) {
        NUuid uuid;
        config.extractText->returnUuid = uuid.create();
        CrossMemoryMapper sharedMemory(config.extractText->returnUuid);
        if (!sharedMemory.allocate(500*1024))
            return 16;
        sharedMemory.clearMemory();
        global.sharedMemory->write("READ_NOTE:" + config.extractText->wrap());
        int maxWait = 5;
        bool expectResponse = true;
        int cnt = 0;
        while (expectResponse && cnt<maxWait) {
            QByteArray data = sharedMemory.read();
            if (!data.startsWith('\0')) {
                expectResponse = false;
                config.extractText->unwrap(data);
            } else {
                sleep(1);
            }
            cnt++;
        }
        if (!expectResponse)
            std::cout << config.extractText->text.toStdString() << endl;
        else
            std::cout << tr("No response received from NixNote.").toStdString();
    } else {
        global.db = new DatabaseConnection("nixnote");  // Startup the database
        NoteTable noteTable(global.db);
        Note n;
        QString text;
        if (noteTable.get(n,config.extractText->lid,false,false))
            text = config.extractText->stripTags(n.content);
        else
            text = tr("Note not found.");
        std::cout << text.toStdString() << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}