Description doesn't allow new lines

[DanFMoore]

If I call Event->setDescription() with "\n" (so that the new line is rendered), then the description field ends up with a new line being inserted and appearing like this:

DESCRIPTION:First line of description
Second line of description

When this is imported into an application, then only the first line of the description appears.

If I call the same method with '\n' (a literal \n) then the description field ends up like this:

DESCRIPTION:First line of description\\nSecond line of description

When this is imported it results in a literal \n appearing.

What you want is this appearing in the file:

DESCRIPTION:First line of description\nSecond line of description

From digging around in the code it looks like you can swap this call in Eluceo\iCal\Property\Event\Description:

    public function getEscapedValue()
    {
        return PropertyValueUtil::escapeValueAllowNewLine((string) $this->value);
    }

with:

    public function getEscapedValue()
    {
        return PropertyValueUtil::escapeValue((string) $this->value);
    }

That appears to work, although I haven't tried running the tests

[navarr]

This is probably related to #61 and #53

[markuspoerschke]

Is this still relevant?

[nikosv]

Any solution or workaround on this?

[nikosv]

Sorry. it looks like the workaround is to use "dev-master" ;-)

[maskedjellybean]

This is an issue again. It seems like \Eluceo\iCal\Component\Event::setDescription needs a parameter we can use as a flag to say whether we want the value run through \Eluceo\iCal\Property\StringValue::getEscapedValue. At the moment there's no way to use line breaks in the description because they're escaped by this method.

EDIT: I realized I'm using an outdated version (0.17.0), so maybe this is resolved in version 2.x. I can't verify this because I'm using this library via another library and don't have control over the version that's used.