146212 - Calendar import/export: open and save as functions.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[ajbu]

I created a set of functions for import/export, loading events from a file, 
and saving events to a file in different formats. Some of these functions are 
used by the clipboard routines.

- Show a Open file dialog, and parse the selected ICS file for calendar events.
- Show a Save As dialog, and save the selected events to that file. In the 
save file dialog, the output format can be selected: iCalendar(.ics) HTML or 
RTF. The last two formats saves as non-parsable formatted text.

I renamed these functions to 'Open...' and 'Save As...' which I think are 
better descriptions, import/export could be a more advanced wizard for 
import/export?

(I do not have any rights in the bugzilla calendar component to assign this to 
myself).

Comment 1

[ajbu]

Attachment: Calendar import/export routines to load events from file, and save events to file.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

I've got permissions. :) 
Great work!

Comment 3

[ajbu]

Attachment: Patch to add Open... / Save As... menu items to main menu, and hook it to the functions

Comment 4

[Mike Potter]

This is checked into CVS.

Comment 5

[ajbu]

Attachment: Patch to change file permissons

little patch to change permissions of created files to 664, was 004. Removed
the not so usefull permission constants.

Comment 6

[Mike Potter]

Into CVS, marking bug as assigned.

Comment 7

[Mike Potter]

I get a problem exporting my events, saying that the file is not writeable.
(Linux)
Also, we should have an option to automatically import all the events, without
opening up the dialog.
Maybe have an extra option on the front end like "Batch Import" or something...

Comment 8

[ajbu]

1) Can you check there are no files saved with a previous versions in that 
directory? Previous version saved with no permissions at all, so those can't 
be overwritten. The default filename is without .ics on Linux, but the filter 
is *.ics. This is different from Windows, Windows save functions automaticly 
add the .ics extension when this is set as the default extension.

2) If that doesn't work, what version of Mozilla did you use? The nsifile api 
was changed in the previous previews.

3) I thought of adding options for 'silent' import to the prefs, but when iTIP 
support is added to Calendar this must all be changed anyway, so I didn't do 
that. For iTip there should be several merge-options, when an updated event is 
imported
A menu option 'Batch Import' and a boolean for the import function could be a 
easy to implement option to do that.

Another point: What do you want to happen when importing an event with a ID 
already in calendar?

Comment 9

[Mike Potter]

You're right, the file exists.
When you get the file name back from the file picker, check if the .ics
extension is on the file.
If it is, don't do anthing. If it isn't, append the extension to the file name
so that people can then see that file when they go to import.

Comment 10

[ajbu]

Attachment: Patch to add dialog for silent import

Patch that adds a dialog before import with options to import with or without
dialogs. Also added a check if the ID of the imported event is unique,
otherwise assign a new ID.

Comment 11

[Mike Potter]

Checked into cvs now.
I think this bug is fixed, marking as such.

Comment 12

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!