Class MailAnswerBounds

Namespace

MailFathom.Application.Retrieval.AskMail

Assembly

MailFathom.Application.dll

How much of one run's outcome a single answer publishes.

public sealed record MailAnswerBounds : IEquatable<MailAnswerBounds>

Inheritance

object

MailAnswerBounds

Implements

IEquatable<MailAnswerBounds>

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

Remarks

These bound the response rather than the run. What the run itself may draw out of a mailbox is EmailKnowledgeBounds, applied per lookup where the passages are built; a run makes several lookups, so neither bound implies the other and both are needed.

Both are cut rather than refused, which is the opposite of how a request bound behaves and is deliberate. A request larger than a limit is the caller's to correct, so refusing hands the decision back to them; an answer larger than a limit has already been generated and paid for, and refusing it would discard a real answer over its length. What makes cutting safe is that it is reported: a caller is told which of the two was cut instead of reading a shortened answer as a complete one.

Properties

Default

Gets the bounds a deployment that states none receives.

MaximumAnswerCharacters

Gets the greatest number of characters one answer may carry.

MaximumCitations

Gets the greatest number of emails one answer may cite.

Methods

Create(int, int)

Creates bounds, refusing values no answer could be published under.

ToString()

Returns a string that represents the current object.