320456 - When an event has neither DTEND nor DURATION, DTEND is added on serializing (upload/export)

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(Bug filed after request in Bug 315719 Comment #6.)

After Bug 315719 is fixed, VEVENTs with neither DTEND nor DURATION will get
serialized to VEVENTs with DTEND. You might call this a datachange bug, because it is not really dataloss.

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have struck again. They are currently chewing on default assignees for Calendar. Be afraid for your sanity!

Comment 2

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Is this really dataloss, or is it more a side-effect of importing your calendar data into Sb/Ln? With importing, we expect some level of datamanipulation. With the provider, not so much.

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

I believe this is dataloss, because it happens in the providers and will happen when roundtripping any data in an ICS-based (eg ICS or CalDAV) calendar.

Comment 4

[Joey Minta]

I don't think it's dataloss, the events are semantically identical with or without the DTEND property, no?

Comment 5

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Stefan, I can imagine this one is fixed bug 390492, too?

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12pre) Gecko/2008012808 Calendar/0.8pre

Same behavior as described in Comment #0 still exists using storage provider.
Seems to work now using ics provider.

Comment 7

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

(In reply to comment #6)
This fits my expectation. However since the ics part is fixed, I don't consider this being dataloss (comment #3) anymore.