Build the mail signal's own words: headline, nearest due date first (issue 1429)

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package main
// The mail signal's own words (novox/hq ADR 0461 §3, §4; issue 1429): a pure function, no store, no bus.
// Sending it — messenger_check, the safe form, the cap, marking mails told — is 1522.
import (
"fmt"
"sort"
"time"
)
// SignalMail is one mail the mail signal may name (ADR 0461 §3): just enough of its entry, never a body.
// Date is the mail's own date, the "oldest first" tiebreak among mails with no due date (1429/AC1); it is
// not itself said.
type SignalMail struct {
SenderName string // "" answers "a sender without a name" (1429/AC2), never the address
Summary string
Date time.Time
DueDate time.Time // zero means none
}
// SignalWords is what one mail signal says (ADR 0461 §1): a headline, and at most two lines.
type SignalWords struct {
Headline string
Lines []string
}
// orderSignalMails is 1429/AC1, AC4: nearest due date first (one without a due date after all those with
// one), then oldest first among mails sharing that place — "mails carried from earlier (untold)" are simply
// part of the same list handed in, ordered exactly as any other mail that matters is.
func orderSignalMails(mails []SignalMail) []SignalMail {
sorted := append([]SignalMail(nil), mails...)
sort.SliceStable(sorted, func(i, j int) bool {
a, b := sorted[i], sorted[j]
aNone, bNone := a.DueDate.IsZero(), b.DueDate.IsZero()
if aNone != bNone {
return bNone // a has a due date, b does not: a first
}
if !aNone {
return a.DueDate.Before(b.DueDate)
}
return a.Date.Before(b.Date) // oldest first, among mails with no due date
})
return sorted
}
// headline is "1 mail matters" or "N mails matter" (1429/AC1, AC3: the same headline whether the words are
// said in full or the safe form).
func headline(n int) string {
if n == 1 {
return "1 mail matters"
}
return fmt.Sprintf("%d mails matter", n)
}
// mailLine is one mail's own line (1429/AC1): "<sender's name> — <summary> — due <date>", the due part left
// out entirely when there is none; a sender with no display name is "a sender without a name" (AC2), never
// its address.
func mailLine(m SignalMail) string {
sender := m.SenderName
if sender == "" {
sender = "a sender without a name"
}
line := sender + " — " + m.Summary
if !m.DueDate.IsZero() {
line += " — due " + m.DueDate.Format("2006-01-02")
}
return line
}
// BuildSignal is the mail signal's words in full (1429/AC1, AC2, AC4): the headline, the nearest-due mail's
// own line, and — with more than one — the next one's, ending ", and N-2 more on the mail page" once there
// are more than two in all.
func BuildSignal(mails []SignalMail) SignalWords {
ordered := orderSignalMails(mails)
n := len(ordered)
w := SignalWords{Headline: headline(n)}
if n == 0 {
return w
}
w.Lines = append(w.Lines, mailLine(ordered[0]))
if n >= 2 {
second := mailLine(ordered[1])
if n > 2 {
second += fmt.Sprintf(", and %d more on the mail page", n-2)
}
w.Lines = append(w.Lines, second)
}
return w
}
// SafeSignal is 1429/AC3: the safe form a refused set of words falls back to — the same headline, one line
// naming nothing of any mail.
func SafeSignal(n int) SignalWords {
return SignalWords{Headline: headline(n), Lines: []string{"open the mail page"}}
}
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package main
import (
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
)
func d(day int) time.Time { return time.Date(2026, 11, day, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC) }
// 1429/AC1: one mail gives headline "1 mail matters" and one line; the first line names the mail with the
// nearest due date as "<sender> — <summary> — due <date>", no due part without one.
func TestBuildSignalOneMail(t *testing.T) {
w := BuildSignal([]SignalMail{{SenderName: "Alice", Summary: "pay the invoice", DueDate: d(1)}})
if w.Headline != "1 mail matters" {
t.Fatalf("headline = %q", w.Headline)
}
if len(w.Lines) != 1 || w.Lines[0] != "Alice — pay the invoice — due 2026-11-01" {
t.Fatalf("lines = %v", w.Lines)
}
}
// 1429/AC1: a mail with no due date carries no due part.
func TestBuildSignalNoDueDate(t *testing.T) {
w := BuildSignal([]SignalMail{{SenderName: "Alice", Summary: "fyi"}})
if w.Lines[0] != "Alice — fyi" {
t.Fatalf("lines[0] = %q, want no due part", w.Lines[0])
}
}
// 1429/AC1: N mails give "N mails matter"; the first line names the nearest due date, the second the next
// one, ending with the "and N-2 more" tail once there are more than two.
func TestBuildSignalSeveralMails(t *testing.T) {
mails := []SignalMail{
{SenderName: "Carol", Summary: "c", Date: d(1)}, // no due date, oldest of the no-due-date ones
{SenderName: "Bob", Summary: "b", DueDate: d(10)},
{SenderName: "Alice", Summary: "a", DueDate: d(5)}, // nearest due date: first
{SenderName: "Dave", Summary: "d", Date: d(2)},
}
w := BuildSignal(mails)
if w.Headline != "4 mails matter" {
t.Fatalf("headline = %q", w.Headline)
}
if len(w.Lines) != 2 {
t.Fatalf("lines = %v, want 2", w.Lines)
}
if !strings.HasPrefix(w.Lines[0], "Alice —") {
t.Fatalf("lines[0] = %q, want Alice first (nearest due date)", w.Lines[0])
}
if !strings.HasPrefix(w.Lines[1], "Bob —") || !strings.HasSuffix(w.Lines[1], ", and 2 more on the mail page") {
t.Fatalf("lines[1] = %q, want Bob, and the N-2 tail", w.Lines[1])
}
}
// 1429/AC1: with exactly two mails, the second line carries no "more" tail.
func TestBuildSignalTwoMailsNoTail(t *testing.T) {
w := BuildSignal([]SignalMail{
{SenderName: "Alice", Summary: "a", DueDate: d(1)},
{SenderName: "Bob", Summary: "b", DueDate: d(2)},
})
if strings.Contains(w.Lines[1], "more") {
t.Fatalf("lines[1] = %q, want no 'more' tail with only two mails", w.Lines[1])
}
}
// 1429/AC2: a sender without a display name is "a sender without a name", never its address.
func TestBuildSignalSenderWithNoName(t *testing.T) {
w := BuildSignal([]SignalMail{{SenderName: "", Summary: "x"}})
if !strings.HasPrefix(w.Lines[0], "a sender without a name —") {
t.Fatalf("lines[0] = %q, want it to start with 'a sender without a name'", w.Lines[0])
}
}
// 1429/AC3: the safe form keeps the same headline and says only "open the mail page".
func TestSafeSignal(t *testing.T) {
w := SafeSignal(3)
if w.Headline != "3 mails matter" {
t.Fatalf("headline = %q", w.Headline)
}
if len(w.Lines) != 1 || w.Lines[0] != "open the mail page" {
t.Fatalf("lines = %v", w.Lines)
}
one := SafeSignal(1)
if one.Headline != "1 mail matters" {
t.Fatalf("one mail's headline = %q", one.Headline)
}
}
// 1429/AC4: mails carried over from earlier (untold) are counted in N and ordered with the new ones — this
// function takes no notice of which are new and which are carried, only their own due date and date.
func TestBuildSignalCountsCarriedMailsWithTheNewOnes(t *testing.T) {
carried := SignalMail{SenderName: "Old", Summary: "carried", DueDate: d(1)} // told=false from an earlier batch
newMail := SignalMail{SenderName: "New", Summary: "fresh", DueDate: d(2)}
w := BuildSignal([]SignalMail{carried, newMail})
if w.Headline != "2 mails matter" {
t.Fatalf("headline = %q, want the carried mail counted too", w.Headline)
}
if !strings.HasPrefix(w.Lines[0], "Old —") {
t.Fatalf("lines[0] = %q, want the carried mail (nearer due date) first", w.Lines[0])
}
}