The original algorithm tried to delegate the folding to the tokens so
that those tokens whose folding rules differed could specify the
differences. However, this resulted in a lot of duplicated code because
most of the rules were the same.
The new algorithm moves all folding logic into a set of functions
external to the token classes, but puts the information about which
tokens can be folded in which ways on the tokens...with the exception of
mime-parameters, which are a special case (which was not even
implemented in the old folder).
This algorithm can still probably be improved and hopefully simplified
somewhat.
Note that some of the test expectations are changed. I believe the
changes are toward more desirable and consistent behavior: in general
when (re) folding a line the canonical version of the tokens is
generated, rather than preserving errors or extra whitespace.
(cherry picked from commit 85d5c18c9d)
Leading whitespace was incorrectly dropped during folding of certain lines in the _header_value_parser's folding algorithm. This makes the whitespace handling code consistent.
It turns out we can't depend on email.message getting imported every place
message_factory is needed, so to avoid a circular import we need to special
case Policy.message_factory=None in the parser instead of using monkey
patching. I had a feeling that was a bad idea when I did it.
This is a wholesale reorganization and editing of the email documentation to
make the new API the standard one, and the old API the 'legacy' one. The
default is still the compat32 policy, for backward compatibility. We will
change that eventually.
This changes the main documentation, doc strings, source code comments, and a
couple error messages in the test suite. In some cases the word was removed
or edited some other way to fix the grammar.
This defaults to True in the compat32 policy for backward compatibility,
but to False for all new policies.
Patch by Milan Oberkirch, with a few tweaks.
This could use more edge case tests, but the basic functionality is tested.
(Note that this changeset does not add tailored support for the RFC 6532
message/global MIME type, but the email package generic facilities will handle
it.)
Reviewed by Maciej Szulik.
This mimics get_param's error handling for the most part. It is slightly
better in some regards as get_param can produce some really weird results for
duplicate *0* parts. It departs from get_param slightly in that if we have a
mix of non-extended and extended pieces for the same parameter name, the new
parser assumes they were all supposed to be extended and concatenates all the
values, whereas get_param always picks the non-extended parameter value. All
of this error recovery is pretty much arbitrary decisions...