recuring events get not created

[ThomasCr]

this example:

BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:5066@domain.com
ORGANIZER;CN="Max Mustermann":MAILTO:m.mustermann@domain.de
ATTENDEE;CN="Jeder";RSVP=FALSE;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT:MAILTO:info@topackt.de
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1
SUMMARY;CHARSET=UTF-8:Teamsitzung (Serientermin)
DESCRIPTION;CHARSET=UTF-8:
LOCATION;CHARSET=UTF-8:A Place,
a street 2,
plz Town
CLASS:PUBLIC
CATEGORIES;CHARSET=UTF-8:Intern
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20130902T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20130902T103000
END:VEVENT

[bigpresh]

Apologies for somehow not seeing this issue until now :|

Is this still a problem for you? If so, please let me know and I'll see what I can do. I don't think the script gives any consideration to recurring events, but it may not be too difficult to implement...

[bigpresh]

Having looked a bit, it seems that iCal::Parser claims it understands recurring events and explodes them into multiple events, one for each day - so my script should just see them as a set of events and act on them.

(It would be much nicer if the event could be synced to Google Calendar as a recurring event, though, so you'd see it as recurring and be able to edit/delete all instances of it, rather than a bunch of dumb events - that's one for future wishing though.)

Do you have a full iCal feed that exhibits this problem (i.e. including the BEGIN:VCALENDAR and everything else)?

[bigpresh]

Ah. I see what's going on. iCal::Parser returns a hashref keyed by year, month, day, and for each event, events are keyed by their ID. My code turns that into a flat list, keyed by ID. If it's a recurring event, though, that means that only the last instance of it will be added to the Google calendar.

Unfortunately iCal::Parser doesn't make the recurrence info visible. I can hack around it by looking for multiple events with the same ID, and treating them as one multi-day event if the start date of each event is one day later than the end date of the previous, and recurring if not - but that would fail for daily recurring events, and is messy anyway. Alternatively I could just not care about recurrence beyond making sure that the "exploded" events get added to the Google Calendar - so they won't be linked as a recurring series, but would at least be there; that'd be a bit ugly though.

A better fix, probably, is to find another iCal-parsing module which would let me know it's a recurring event.

[bigpresh]

Issue #10 will solve this.