355304 - Exceptions of recurring events are not handled by export to iCalendar

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect, P1)

Description

[Sebastian Schwieger]

When exporting a storage calendar to iCalendar format recurring events loose any exceptions.

Steps to reproduce:
1. create daily recurring event (5 times)
2. drag first occurrence one week ahead
3. export whole calendar, choose iCalendar format

Result: no exceptions in ics file. After importing the data again, the exeptions are not shown.

found using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061002 Sunbird/0.3

Comment 1

[Sebastian Schwieger]

This is in conflict with "Export should serialize all data into the file" from the release status file. Requesting blocking0.3

Comment 2

[cmtalbert]

I can reproduce this on Lightning 0.3rc 1 (2006100209), Thunderbird 1.5.7 (20060909), on Mac PPC OSX 10.4

Comment 3

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

losing data on export is bad.

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Attachment: patch v1

Copied the code from the ics provider. One day, we will share this code...

Comment 5

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Comment on attachment 241187 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v1

Looks good; r=dmose.

Comment 6

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

patch checked in, moved the SUNBIRD_0_3_RELEASE tag

Comment 7

[Damian Szczepanik]

well, can not verify -> REOPEN

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061217 Calendar/0.4a1

1. create event from tomorrow, per 5 days (no matter if I set daily or not)
2. move first occurence to next hour (use week view)
3. export calendar
4. delete events
5. import exported calendar

result: error - 1 item failed to import

Comment 8

[Damian Szczepanik]

Attachment: calendar which I exported and wanted to import

Comment 9

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> well, can not verify -> REOPEN
> result: error - 1 item failed to import

This bug is about export. Does the export worked as expected after this fix?
If you see an error during import this is a complete different problem and I think you should file a new bug.

Comment 10

[Damian Szczepanik]

(In reply to comment #9)

> This bug is about export. Does the export worked as expected after this fix?
That's the problem. I'm not able to verify if exception was exported properly so I exported calendar and wanted to import to check if is is the same

> If you see an error during import this is a complete different problem and I
> think you should file a new bug.
Yes, error is displayed when I try to import

Ok, if you think that exported data looks good, please close it, mark as fixed (because bug is fixed) and let me open new issue

Comment 11

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20061219 Calendar/0.4a1:

I created repeating event, deleted one occurrence and exported to iCalendar file. I checked the file and the EXDATE elements are there.

-> Setting back to FIXED.

Damian, please file a new bug on the import issue. 
(Note: If you just open your exported file as new calendar it works ok)

Comment 12

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

I filed Bug 364388 for the import issue.