Booleans have no out of band values, so return a status for errors.
---
 lib/config.cc | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/notmuch.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/config.cc b/lib/config.cc
index 4500fe1a..17af4b46 100644
--- a/lib/config.cc
+++ b/lib/config.cc
@@ -334,6 +334,32 @@ _notmuch_config_load_from_file (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
     return status;
 }
 
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_config_get_bool (notmuch_database_t *notmuch, notmuch_config_key_t key, notmuch_bool_t *val)
+{
+    const char *key_string, *val_string;
+
+    key_string = _notmuch_config_key_to_string (key);
+    if (! key_string) {
+	return NOTMUCH_STATUS_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT;
+    }
+
+    val_string = _notmuch_string_map_get (notmuch->config, key_string);
+    if (! val_string) {
+	*val = FALSE;
+	return NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+    }
+
+    if (strcase_equal (val_string, "false") || strcase_equal (val_string, "no"))
+	*val = FALSE;
+    else if (strcase_equal (val_string, "true") || strcase_equal (val_string, "yes"))
+	*val = TRUE;
+    else
+	return NOTMUCH_STATUS_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT;
+
+    return NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
 static const char *
 _notmuch_config_key_to_string (notmuch_config_key_t key) {
     switch (key) {
diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 3bd4aa54..b3346eb7 100644
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -2518,6 +2518,25 @@ notmuch_config_values_move_to_next (notmuch_config_values_t *values);
 void
 notmuch_config_values_destroy (notmuch_config_values_t *values);
 
+/**
+ * get a configuration value from an open database as Boolean
+ *
+ * This value reflects all configuration information given at the time
+ * the database was opened.
+ *
+ * @param[in] notmuch database
+ * @param[in] key configuration key
+ * @param[out] val configuration value, converted to Boolean
+ *
+ * @since libnotmuch 5.4 (notmuch 0.32)
+ *
+ * @retval #NOTMUCH_STATUS_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT if either key is unknown
+ * or the corresponding value does not convert to Boolean.
+ */
+notmuch_status_t
+notmuch_config_get_bool (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
+			 notmuch_config_key_t key,
+			 notmuch_bool_t *val);
 /**
  * get the current default indexing options for a given database.
  *
-- 
2.29.2
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