Introduce dynamic filtering for repository folders

Allow people who want folder filtering to depend on the external
conditions or to make it dynamic for other reasons, to do what
they want.

New repository configuration knob 'dynamic_folderfilter' was
introduced; it defaults to 'False' that matches historical behaviour.

GitHub: OfflineIMAP#73
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <[email protected]>

Changelog.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ ChangeLog
 
 :website: http://offlineimap.org
 
+
+OfflineIMAP v6.5.6 (YYYY-MM-DD)
+===============================
+
+* Add knob to invoke folderfilter dynamically on each sync (GitHub#73)
+
+
 OfflineIMAP v6.5.5 (2013-10-07)
 ===============================
 

offlineimap.conf

@@ -540,6 +540,12 @@ remoteuser = username
 #
 # nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub('^INBOX\.*', '.', foldername)
 
+# Determines if folderfilter will be invoked on each run
+# (dynamic folder filtering) or filtering status will be determined
+# at startup (default behaviour).
+#
+# dynamic_folderfilter = False
+
 # You can specify which folders to sync using the folderfilter
 # setting. You can provide any python function (e.g. a lambda function)
 # which will be invoked for each foldername. If the filter function

offlineimap/folder/Base.py

@@ -33,11 +33,8 @@ def __init__(self, name, repository):
         :para repository: Repository() in which the folder is.
         """
         self.ui = getglobalui()
-        """Should this folder be included in syncing?"""
-        self._sync_this = repository.should_sync_folder(name)
-        if not self._sync_this:
-            self.ui.debug('', "Filtering out '%s'[%s] due to folderfilter" \
-                          % (name, repository))
+        # Save original name for folderfilter operations
+        self.ffilter_name = name
         # Top level dir name is always ''
         self.name = name if not name == self.getsep() else ''
         self.repository = repository
@@ -47,6 +44,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, repository):
         # return for the top-level dir.
         if self.visiblename == self.getsep():
             self.visiblename = ''
+
         self.config = repository.getconfig()
         utime_from_message_global = \
           self.config.getdefaultboolean("general",
@@ -56,6 +54,19 @@ def __init__(self, name, repository):
           self.config.getdefaultboolean(repo,
           "utime_from_message", utime_from_message_global)
 
+        # Determine if we're running static or dynamic folder filtering
+        # and check filtering status
+        self._dynamic_folderfilter = \
+          self.config.getdefaultboolean(repo, "dynamic_folderfilter", False)
+        self._sync_this = repository.should_sync_folder(self.ffilter_name)
+        if self._dynamic_folderfilter:
+            self.ui.debug('', "Running dynamic folder filtering on '%s'[%s]" \
+                          % (self.ffilter_name, repository))
+        elif not self._sync_this:
+            self.ui.debug('', "Filtering out '%s'[%s] due to folderfilter" \
+                          % (self.ffilter_name, repository))
+
+
     def getname(self):
         """Returns name"""
         return self.name
@@ -71,7 +82,10 @@ def accountname(self):
     @property
     def sync_this(self):
         """Should this folder be synced or is it e.g. filtered out?"""
-        return self._sync_this
+        if not self._dynamic_folderfilter:
+            return self._sync_this
+        else:
+            return this.repository.should_sync_folder(self.ffilter_name)
 
     @property
     def utime_from_message(self):