Bug #80200 for Data-ICal: Support for removing entries/properties

Mon Oct 15 13:19:49 2012 dinatural [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Data::Ical
Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:22:22 -0400
To:	jesse [...] bestpractical.com
From:	Dino Trudel <dinatural [...] gmail.com>

Hi there, I'm sorry if this is not the right address to send this question, please redirect me to the proper forum if not... I've been using Data::Ical to modify Ical Events to add properties successfully for a while, now I'd like to remove stuff (attachments or the ATTACH properties) but I can't see in the doc how to do that except setting empty ATTACH values, which seems like not the right way to do... What would be the best way? Thanks in advance

Mon Oct 15 19:07:49 2012 tsibley [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Mon Oct 15 13:19:49 2012, dinatural@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text

> I've been using Data::Ical to modify Ical Events to add properties > successfully for a while, now I'd like to remove stuff (attachments or the > ATTACH properties) but I can't see in the doc how to do that except setting > empty ATTACH values, which seems like not the right way to do...

Unfortunately there's no API for removing properties. Short of writing a patch for that API (which we'd certainly consider if you submitted one), I see two solutions: 1) Rebuild new Data::ICal and entry objects, skipping entries/properties you don't want 2) or be a bit naughty and modify the entry object's internals directly: delete $entry->properties->{attach}; All property names are lowercased before being set internally. I'll leave this report as a "wishlist" item.

Mon Oct 15 19:07:50 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Oct 15 19:08:45 2012 tsibley [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from 'Data::Ical' to 'Support for removing entries/properties'

Mon Oct 15 19:08:45 2012 tsibley [...] cpan.org - Severity Wishlist added