setmetadata and NIL

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 03/05/2021 13:01 Steffen <skdovecot at inf.h-brs.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I played with Dovecot's metadata in
> 
> dovecot-core                                   2:2.3.14-5+debian9
> 
> from repo
> 
> deb https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/stretch stretch main
> 
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5464#section-4.3
> and
> https://github.com/coi-dev/coi-specs/blob/master/webpush-spec.md
> 
> use NIL to remove items.
> 
> Unsubscribe
> 
> To unsubscribe from push notification set the previously push annotation
> to NIL.
> 
> *Example for unsubscribing from push notifications: *
> 
> C: a SETMETADATA ""
> (/private/vendor/vendor.dovecot/webpush/subscriptions/31754ee7-d3ee-4226-b112-6895ed26fcf8
> NIL)
> S: a OK SETMETADATA complete
> 
> and
> 
> C: a SETMETADATA INBOX (/private/comment NIL)
>            S: a OK SETMETADATA complete
> 
>       In the above example, the entry "/private/comment" is removed from
>       the mailbox "INBOX".
> 
> 
> However, the metadata is stored as string NIL instead of removed:
> 
> cat /home/user/Maildir/dovecot-attributes
> priv/369c8f17e81ff151f40400002e27b77f/vendor/vendor.dovecot/pvt/server/vendor/vendor.dovecot/webpush/subscriptions/31754ee7-d3ee-4226-b112-6895ed26fcf8
> NIL
> priv/369c8f17e81ff151f40400002e27b77f/comment
> NIL
> shared/369c8f17e81ff151f40400002e27b77f/comment
> NIL
> 
> a GETMETADATA (DEPTH 1) ""
> (/private/vendor/vendor.dovecot/webpush/subscriptions)
> * METADATA ""
> (/private/vendor/vendor.dovecot/webpush/subscriptions/31754ee7-d3ee-4226-b112-6895ed26fcf8
> {3}
> NIL)
> a OK Getmetadata completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs).
> 
> Do I have misinterpreted the samples? I though, the metadata is to be
> removed and getmetadata should not return the string NIL.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> -- 
> Steffen

Hi!

Seems you indeed discovered a bug. We are looking into it and tracking it as DOP-2379.

Thank you for reporting it.

Aki