Bug #93333 for iCal-Parser: Provide way to get recurrence information?

Tue Feb 25 04:53:18 2014 pere [...] hungry.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Provide way to get recurrence information?
Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:53:07 +0100
To:	bug-iCal-Parser [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Petter Reinholdtsen <pere [...] hungry.com>

Hi. I am trying to write a converter from ical to plan, allowing me to inject text/calendar emails into my plan calendar. I try to use the iCal::Parser perl module for this, but while plan understand and support recurring events, I am unable to get iCal::Parser to provide information about which events are recurring. The events are expanded, but no information about the recurrence patterns is available. Can you please extend iCal::Parser to make the details from RRULE available to the perl program using the module? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

Sat Jun 28 09:40:19 2014 https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlsFr716ITHX5fFqEoy1RDF6vBODDmICWg - Correspondence added

From:

bruce [...] momjian.us

On Tue Feb 25 04:53:18 2014, pere@hungry.com wrote: Show quoted text

> Can you please extend iCal::Parser to make the details from RRULE > available to the perl program using the module?

I needed to identify which events were recurring and which were not. I found that the UID is the same for recurring events, so I could identify a recurring event if there was more than one matching UID returned. Not sure if that helps you though.

Sat Jun 28 09:40:20 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Jul 08 09:52:35 2014 https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlsFr716ITHX5fFqEoy1RDF6vBODDmICWg - Correspondence added

One thing I just realized is that multi-day events also have the same UID, so you can't use just multiple entries with the same UID to identify recurring events. What I did was to sort by UID and start-date, and then exclude events as recurring if the end date of one entry is the same as the start date of the next with the same UID.