cli: add utility routine to print error status.

No attention to formatting here, initially just focus on getting the
relevant strings out of the library.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/status.c b/status.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8fa81cbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/status.c
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#include "notmuch-client.h"
+
+notmuch_status_t
+print_status_query (const char *loc,
+		    const notmuch_query_t *query,
+		    notmuch_status_t status)
+{
+    if (status) {
+	const char *msg;
+	notmuch_database_t *notmuch;
+
+	fprintf (stderr, "%s: %s\n", loc,
+		 notmuch_status_to_string (status));
+
+	notmuch = notmuch_query_get_database (query);
+	msg = notmuch_database_status_string (notmuch);
+	if (msg)
+	    fputs (msg, stderr);
+    }
+    return status;
+}