278152 - A relative calendar path causes an ugly error when you try to publish.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 305527

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Brett Kosinski]

If the user's local calendar is specified with a relative path (I specified mine
relatively to my home directory), an error is emitted when trying to publish
because nsLocalFile.initWithPath, which is called from
calendar/jslib/filesystem.js:initPath, expects a fully qualified path name, and
returns NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH if this isn't the case.  This error is
then propagated up and ends up in an alert box with an ugly error message and a
simple numeric error code... quite opaque. :)

Suggested Solution: convert the path to an absolute one when the user is
initially entering their calendar file name in the file dialog.

At minimum, checking the type of exception and cleaning up the error box would help.

BTW, I didn't know exactly where to post the bug, so I picked General.

Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 2

[cmtalbert]

This is an issue where the publishing dialog needs to be drastically improved. Duping against the appropriate bug for this.