This also backs out the previous fixes for for #14360, #1717, and #16564.
Those bugs were actually caused by the fact that set_payload didn't decode to
str, thus rendering the model inconsistent. This fix does mean the data
processed by the encoder functions goes through an extra encode/decode cycle,
but it means the model is always consistent. Future API updates will provide
a better way to encode payloads, which will bypass this minor de-optimization.
Tests by Vajrasky Kok.
There is more to be done here in terms of accepting RFC invalid
input that some mailers accept, but this covers the valid
RFC places where encoded words can occur in structured headers.
The problem was I was only checking for decimal digits after the third '?',
not for *hex* digits :(.
This changeset also fixes a couple of comment typos, deletes an unused
function relating to encoded word parsing, and removed an invalid
'if' test from the folding function that was revealed by the tests
written to validate this issue.
There were no tests for the encoders module. encode_base64 worked
because it is the default and so got tested implicitly elsewhere, and
we use encode_7or8bit internally, so that worked, too. I previously
fixed encode_noop, so this fix means that everythign in the encoders
module now works, hopefully correctly. Also added an explicit test
for encode_base64.
Previously the parts of the message retained whatever linesep they had on
read, which means if the messages weren't read in univeral newline mode, the
line endings could well be inconsistent. In general sending it via smtplib
would result in them getting fixed, but it is better to generate them
correctly to begin with. Also, the new send_message method of smtplib does
not do the fixup, so that method is producing rfc-invalid output without this
fix.
Previously the parts of the message retained whatever linesep they had on
read, which means if the messages weren't read in univeral newline mode, the
line endings could well be inconsistent. In general sending it via smtplib
would result in them getting fixed, but it is better to generate them
correctly to begin with. Also, the new send_message method of smtplib does
not do the fixup, so that method is producing rfc-invalid output without this
fix.
This code passes all the same tests that the existing RFC mime header
parser passes, plus a bunch of additional ones.
There are a couple of commented out tests where there are issues with the
folding. The folding doesn't normally get invoked for headers parsed from
source, and the cases are marginal anyway (headers with invalid binary data)
so I'm not worried about them, but will fix them after the beta.
There are things that can be done to make this API even more convenient, but I
think this is a solid foundation worth having. And the parser is a full RFC
parser, so it handles cases that the current parser doesn't. (There are also
probably cases where it fails when the current parser doesn't, but I haven't
found them yet ;)
Oh, yeah, and there are some really ugly bits in the parser for handling some
'postel' cases that are unfortunately common.
I hope/plan to to eventually refactor a lot of the code in the parser which
should reduce the line count...but there is no escaping the fact that the
error recovery is welter of special cases.
The behavior of MessageDefect is legacy behavior. The chances anyone is
actually using the undocumented 'line' attribute is low, but it costs
little to retain backward compatibility. Although one of the costs is
having to restore normal exception behavior in HeaderDefect. On the
other hand, I'll probably add some specialized behavior there later.
This is a behavior change: before this leading and trailing spaces were
stripped from ASCII parts, now they are preserved. Without this fix we didn't
parse the examples in the RFC correctly, so I think breaking backward
compatibility here is justified.
Patch by Ralf Schlatterbeck.
This feature was supposed to be part of the initial email6 checkin, but it got
lost in my big refactoring.
In this patch I'm not providing an easy way to turn off the errors, but they
only happen when a header is added programmatically, and it is almost never
the right thing to do to allow the duplicate to be added. An application that
needs to add duplicates of unique headers can create a policy subclass to
allow it.
This commit also restores the news item for 167256 that it looks like
Terry inadvertently deleted. (Either that, or I don't understand
now merging works...which is equally possible.)
Which also means that it is now producing *something* for any base64
payload, which is what leads to the couple of older test changes in
test_email. This is a slightly backward incompatible behavior change,
but the new behavior is so much more useful than the old (you can now
*reliably* detect errors, and any program that was detecting errors by
sniffing for a base64 return from get_payload(decode=True) and then doing
its own error-recovery decode will just get the error-recovery decode
right away). So this seems to me to be worth the small risk inherent
in this behavior change.
This patch also refactors the defect tests into a separate test file,
since they are no longer just parser tests.
This patch also deprecates the MalformedHeaderDefect. My best guess is that
this defect was rendered obsolete by a refactoring of the parser, and the
corresponding defect for the new parser (which this patch introduces) was
overlooked.
When I made the checkin of the provisional email policy, I knew that
Address and Group needed to be made accessible from somewhere. The more
I looked at it, though, the more it became clear that since this is a
provisional API anyway, there's no good reason to hide headerregistry as
a private API. It was designed to ultimately be part of the public API,
and so it should be part of the provisional API.
This patch fully documents the headerregistry API, and deletes the
abbreviated version of those docs I had added to the provisional policy
docs.
Although '<>' is invalid according to RFC 5322, SMTP uses it for various
things, and it sometimes ends up in email headers. This patch changes
get_angle_addr to recognize it and just register a Defect instead of raising a
parsing error.
Without this function people would be tempted to use the other date functions
in email.utils to compute an aware localtime, and those functions are not as
good for that purpose as this code. The code is Alexander Belopolsy's from
his proposed patch for issue 9527, with a fix (and additional tests) by Brian
K. Jones.
When the new policies are used (and only when the new policies are explicitly
used) headers turn into objects that have attributes based on their parsed
values, and can be set using objects that encapsulate the values, as well as
set directly from unicode strings. The folding algorithm then takes care of
encoding unicode where needed, and folding according to the highest level
syntactic objects.
With this patch only date and time headers are parsed as anything other than
unstructured, but that is all the helper methods in the existing API handle.
I do plan to add more parsers, and complete the set specified in the RFC
before the package becomes stable.
R David Murray
Ezio Melotti
Terry Jan Reedy
Andrew Svetlov
Georg Brandl
Alexander Belopolsky