+(deffoo nnvirtual-retrieve-headers (articles &optional newsgroup
+ server fetch-old)
+ (when (nnvirtual-possibly-change-server server)
+ (save-excursion
+ (set-buffer nntp-server-buffer)
+ (erase-buffer)
+ (if (stringp (car articles))
+ 'headers
+ (let ((vbuf (nnheader-set-temp-buffer
+ (get-buffer-create " *virtual headers*")))
+ (carticles (nnvirtual-partition-sequence articles))
+ (system-name (system-name))
+ cgroup carticle article result prefix)
+ (while carticles
+ (setq cgroup (caar carticles))
+ (setq articles (cdar carticles))
+ (pop carticles)
+ (when (and articles
+ (gnus-check-server
+ (gnus-find-method-for-group cgroup) t)
+ (gnus-request-group cgroup t)
+ (setq prefix (gnus-group-real-prefix cgroup))
+ ;; FIX FIX FIX we want to check the cache!
+ ;; This is probably evil if people have set
+ ;; gnus-use-cache to nil themselves, but I
+ ;; have no way of finding the true value of it.
+ (let ((gnus-use-cache t))
+ (setq result (gnus-retrieve-headers
+ articles cgroup nil))))
+ (set-buffer nntp-server-buffer)
+ ;; If we got HEAD headers, we convert them into NOV
+ ;; headers. This is slow, inefficient and, come to think
+ ;; of it, downright evil. So sue me. I couldn't be
+ ;; bothered to write a header parse routine that could
+ ;; parse a mixed HEAD/NOV buffer.
+ (when (eq result 'headers)
+ (nnvirtual-convert-headers))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (not (eobp))
+ (delete-region (point)
+ (progn
+ (setq carticle (read nntp-server-buffer))
+ (point)))
+
+ ;; We remove this article from the articles list, if
+ ;; anything is left in the articles list after going through
+ ;; the entire buffer, then those articles have been
+ ;; expired or canceled, so we appropriately update the
+ ;; component group below. They should be coming up
+ ;; generally in order, so this shouldn't be slow.
+ (setq articles (delq carticle articles))
+
+ (setq article (nnvirtual-reverse-map-article cgroup carticle))
+ (if (null article)
+ ;; This line has no reverse mapping, that means it
+ ;; was an extra article reference returned by nntp.
+ (progn
+ (beginning-of-line)
+ (delete-region (point) (progn (forward-line 1) (point))))
+ ;; Otherwise insert the virtual article number,
+ ;; and clean up the xrefs.
+ (princ article nntp-server-buffer)
+ (nnvirtual-update-xref-header cgroup carticle
+ prefix system-name)
+ (forward-line 1))
+ )
+
+ (set-buffer vbuf)
+ (goto-char (point-max))
+ (insert-buffer-substring nntp-server-buffer))
+ ;; Anything left in articles is expired or canceled.
+ ;; Could be smart and not tell it about articles already known?
+ (when articles
+ (gnus-group-make-articles-read cgroup articles))
+ )
+
+ ;; The headers are ready for reading, so they are inserted into
+ ;; the nntp-server-buffer, which is where Gnus expects to find
+ ;; them.
+ (prog1
+ (save-excursion
+ (set-buffer nntp-server-buffer)
+ (erase-buffer)
+ (insert-buffer-substring vbuf)
+ ;; FIX FIX FIX, we should be able to sort faster than
+ ;; this if needed, since each cgroup is sorted, we just
+ ;; need to merge
+ (sort-numeric-fields 1 (point-min) (point-max))
+ 'nov)
+ (kill-buffer vbuf)))))))
+
+
+(defvoo nnvirtual-last-accessed-component-group nil)
+
+(deffoo nnvirtual-request-article (article &optional group server buffer)
+ (when (nnvirtual-possibly-change-server server)
+ (if (stringp article)
+ ;; This is a fetch by Message-ID.
+ (cond
+ ((not nnvirtual-last-accessed-component-group)
+ (nnheader-report
+ 'nnvirtual "Don't know what server to request from"))
+ (t
+ (save-excursion
+ (when buffer
+ (set-buffer buffer))
+ (let ((method (gnus-find-method-for-group
+ nnvirtual-last-accessed-component-group)))
+ (funcall (gnus-get-function method 'request-article)
+ article nil (nth 1 method) buffer)))))
+ ;; This is a fetch by number.
+ (let* ((amap (nnvirtual-map-article article))
+ (cgroup (car amap)))
+ (cond
+ ((not amap)
+ (nnheader-report 'nnvirtual "No such article: %s" article))
+ ((not (gnus-check-group cgroup))
+ (nnheader-report
+ 'nnvirtual "Can't open server where %s exists" cgroup))
+ ((not (gnus-request-group cgroup t))
+ (nnheader-report 'nnvirtual "Can't open component group %s" cgroup))
+ (t
+ (setq nnvirtual-last-accessed-component-group cgroup)
+ (if buffer
+ (save-excursion
+ (set-buffer buffer)
+ (gnus-request-article-this-buffer (cdr amap) cgroup))
+ (gnus-request-article (cdr amap) cgroup))))))))
+
+
+(deffoo nnvirtual-open-server (server &optional defs)
+ (unless (assq 'nnvirtual-component-regexp defs)
+ (push `(nnvirtual-component-regexp ,server)
+ defs))
+ (nnoo-change-server 'nnvirtual server defs)
+ (if nnvirtual-component-groups
+ t
+ (setq nnvirtual-mapping-table nil
+ nnvirtual-mapping-offsets nil
+ nnvirtual-mapping-len 0
+ nnvirtual-mapping-reads nil
+ nnvirtual-mapping-marks nil
+ nnvirtual-info-installed nil)
+ (when nnvirtual-component-regexp
+ ;; Go through the newsrc alist and find all component groups.
+ (let ((newsrc (cdr gnus-newsrc-alist))
+ group)
+ (while (setq group (car (pop newsrc)))
+ (when (string-match nnvirtual-component-regexp group) ; Match
+ ;; Add this group to the list of component groups.
+ (setq nnvirtual-component-groups
+ (cons group (delete group nnvirtual-component-groups)))))))
+ (if (not nnvirtual-component-groups)
+ (nnheader-report 'nnvirtual "No component groups: %s" server)
+ t)))
+
+
+(deffoo nnvirtual-request-group (group &optional server dont-check)
+ (nnvirtual-possibly-change-server server)
+ (setq nnvirtual-component-groups
+ (delete (nnvirtual-current-group) nnvirtual-component-groups))
+ (cond
+ ((null nnvirtual-component-groups)
+ (setq nnvirtual-current-group nil)
+ (nnheader-report 'nnvirtual "No component groups in %s" group))
+ (t
+ (when (or (not dont-check)
+ nnvirtual-always-rescan)
+ (nnvirtual-create-mapping))
+ (setq nnvirtual-current-group group)
+ (nnheader-insert "211 %d 1 %d %s\n"
+ nnvirtual-mapping-len nnvirtual-mapping-len group))))
+
+
+(deffoo nnvirtual-request-type (group &optional article)
+ (if (not article)
+ 'unknown
+ (let ((mart (nnvirtual-map-article article)))
+ (when mart
+ (gnus-request-type (car mart) (cdr mart))))))
+
+(deffoo nnvirtual-request-update-mark (group article mark)
+ (let* ((nart (nnvirtual-map-article article))
+ (cgroup (car nart))
+ ;; The component group might be a virtual group.
+ (nmark (gnus-request-update-mark cgroup (cdr nart) mark)))
+ (when (and nart
+ (= mark nmark)
+ (gnus-group-auto-expirable-p cgroup))
+ (setq mark gnus-expirable-mark)))
+ mark)
+
+
+(deffoo nnvirtual-close-group (group &optional server)
+ (when (and (nnvirtual-possibly-change-server server)
+ (not (gnus-ephemeral-group-p (nnvirtual-current-group))))
+ (nnvirtual-update-read-and-marked t t))