`gmailctl` should interpret `Some/Label/Name` as a nested label about gmailctl HOT 3 CLOSED

I decided to "solve" this by doing a combination of a couple of things:

• I use the method stated here for managing labels (I don't add them individually). Namely, I am just setting the labels in the actions themselves and then using lib.rulesLabels.
• Now when specifying labels in a filter, I use this function instead of a "bare" label array:

   local nestedLabels(labels) =
     local splitLabel(label) = std.split(label, '/');
     local genSubLabels(label) =
       [
         std.join(
           '/',
           splitLabel(label)[:i + 1]
         )
         for i in std.range(0, std.length(splitLabel(label)) - 1)
       ];
     std.flattenArrays([genSubLabels(i) for i in labels]);

  When you call nestedLabels(["some/thing", "lol/okay/no"]) the array will be transformed to ["some", "some/thing", "lol", "lol/okay", "lol/okay/no"], which works perfectly for my needs.

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There are people calling their labels exactly like that (with slashes), and we don't want to break those use cases.

Perhaps you know this already, but just to make sure: to have that label as nested, you have to add a Some and a Some/Label label. After you do this, Gmail will interpret Some/Label/Name as a sub-label.

Since gmailctl uses Jsonnet, you can implement this in your config directly. See e.g. how we automatically create labels through https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl/blob/master/internal/data/gmailctl.libsonnet#L68. I think that doing something similar to extendWithParents should work for you.

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