379730 - Import of an Outlook .ics file fails to get start/end dates

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[Philip Bondi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070504 Calendar/0.5pre

If I write an Outlook .ics file and import it into Calendar, then it ignores the start and end time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create event in Outlook
2. Mail it to yourself
3. Save meeting.ics file
4. Import into Calendar
5. There is no start/end time


Expected Results:  
Sunbird 0.3.1 would always successfully import an Outlook .ics file

Comment 1

[Philip Bondi]

Attachment: sample Outlook event

Comment 2

[Philip Bondi]

Attachment: Event as imported into Calendar

Please note that start and end times are for today.  My dentist appt is in June.

Comment 3

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Please attach the sample .ics file in question and not a screenshot.

Comment 4

[Philip Bondi]

Attachment: Meeting.ics file for my dentist appointment

Comment 5

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

I can confirm the issue. This is what I see in Error Console:

Error: No trigger property for alarm on item: 040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000007059B3C0478EC701000000000000000
010000000B795DA8FCF506047B6DDD18A14B14912
Source File: file:///D:/sunbird/js/calItemBase.js
Line: 603

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIScriptableDateFormat.FormatDate]"  nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///D:/Programme/sunbird/js/calDateTimeFormatter.js :: formatDateLong :: line 149"  data: no]
Source File: file:///D:/sunbird/js/calDateTimeFormatter.js
Line: 149


This seems to be caused by faulty line endings in the .ics file. Each line in the attached .ics ends with \r\r\n. 

If I replace the faulty line endings with normal \r\n line ending the import works fine.

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Sunbird/0.3 (20061006) fails with the same error message, so this is no regression as said in Comment #0.

Comment 7

[Philip Bondi]

I think this is a bug in the Alpine e-mail client that I used to save the .ics file.