392627 - Google Calendar Events Not Showing Up in View in latest nightlies (Error: dateTime.normalize is not a function)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Todd Zimmerman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070816 BonEcho/2.0.0.7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070817

The nightly builds since after the 2007-08-15-04-mozilla1.8 nightly have a bug where my remote Google calendar will still appears in my list and I can still add events to the calendar from within Sunbird; however, no events are shown from this calendar in Sunbird no matter what view.  

This problem has been somewhat independently confirmed by a user on MozillaZine (see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=576440) 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Sunbird with a Google Calendar setup
2. 
3.
Actual Results:  
No events shown in calendar

Expected Results:  
Events shown in calendar.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Schwieger]

Confirmed with a new profile and Lightning 2007081705 / Thunderbird 20070728.

Events are not shown in any view but they are created (they can be seen through Google Web Calendar interface).

The reporter said on IRC that no error messages appear in the console.

I see error messages, they may not be related to this bug:

Fehler: Failed to fetch todo items: 0x80004001
Quelldatei: chrome://lightning/content/calendar-todo-list.xml
Zeile: 133

Fehler: [Exception... "'Component does not have requested interface' when calling method: [nsIInterfaceRequestor::getInterface]"  nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

Comment 2

[Sebastian Schwieger]

For the sake of completeness: gdata version 0.2.1

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

I couldn't reproduce this. Could this be a result of the disappearing events bugs [1]? I don't think the error console messages have to do with this bug. They have been there longer and haven't caused any trouble that I know of.



[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%5B0.5+disappearing+events%5D

Comment 4

[Nigel J. Terry]

I can confirm this with Lightning 0.7pre build 2007082004,  Provider 0.2.1

I have tried removing and re-installing the add-ons, deleting and reconfiguring the calendars all to no avail.

I can further confirm that any events created appear in Google, but nothing is shown in Lightning

Nigel

Comment 5

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

I have the following further ideas:

* try this with a fresh profile
* remove all other calendars (if possible)
* try selecting reload remote calendars
* Enable calendar.debug.log and check for strange errors in the error console
* Any other errors in the error console?
* Does this go away when you change the view?
* Using google apps for your domain?
* Using proxy?

Comment 6

[Ben Lerner]

I can't try with a fresh profile at the moment, but I can confirm Nigel's experience in comment #4 (I have the same versions as he does).  I tried removing all remote calendars, tried reloading, etc.  I enabled calendar.debug.log, and got the following messages each time I reloaded remote calendars:

calGoogleRequest: Requesting GET http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/my-email-address/private/full?max-results=2147483647&singleevents=true&start-min=2007-08-19&start-max=2007-08-26
Received response for http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/my-email-address/private/full
Error parsing XML streamTypeError: dateTime.normalize is not a function
Error getting items: TypeError: dateTime.normalize is not a function

It also complains with an error 
Error: Failed to fetch todo items: 0x80004001
Source File: chrome://lightning/content/calendar-todo-list.xml
Line: 133

...but that happens with all my remote calendars, so that's not likely GData's problem.

These events don't show up in any view (daily, weekly, multi, or monthly).  On the other hand, I tried subscribing to my own calendar a *second* time, as a regular ICS calendar (not through the GData provider).  That will show my events just fine!  So my current workaround is to publish events via the GData provider, and view them using the ICS calendar.  It's kludgy, but it works ;-)

Comment 7

[Todd Zimmerman]

* Same behaviour with a fresh profile
* Same behaviour after removing all other calendars
* Same behaviour after selecting to reload the calendar
* Debug info below
* Same behaviour no matter what view
* Not sure about google apps domain and/or proxy

As noted above by Ben L., the debug output has the following errors:

calGoogleRequest: Requesting GET http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/<email blocked>/private/full?max-results=2147483647&singleevents=true&start-min=2007-07-29T07%3A00%3A00Z&start-max=2007-09-08T07%3A00%3A00Z
Recieved response for http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/<email blocked>/private/full
Error parsing XML streamTypeError: dateTime.normalize is not a function
Error getting items:
TypeError: dateTime.normalize is not a function

Comment 8

[Nigel J. Terry]

I'm out of my depth with debugging this, but my error console shows:

Error: Failed to fetch todo items: 0x80004001
Source File: chrome://lightning/content/calendar-todo-list.xml
Line: 133

Above repeated 4 times

Error: [Exception... "'Component does not have requested interface' when
calling method: [nsIInterfaceRequestor::getInterface]"  nsresult: "0x80004002
(NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

Above repeated 6 times.

I have 1 local and 2 Google Calendars in my list

Comment 9

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Aha, that explains it! This is the result of bug 391062. The bug contains a fix
for the gdata provider, but this is of course not in version 0.2.1. It will be
contained in the next release. This is also the reason I could not reproduce.

Marking as INVALID for now. If this problem persists with a gdata version from
cvs or version 0.2.3, feel free to reopen!

If you want a version now, see developer.mozilla.org or wiki.mozilla.org for a
guide how to get the calendar source from cvs.

Comment 10

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

I mean 0.2.2 of course.

Comment 11

[Steffen Wilberg]

Could you upload a gdata nightly to e.g. the amo sandbox, please?
Why is there no nightly build of gdata, or maybe a lightning+gdata or lightning+all_providers? If lightning nightlies break providers, we either need provider nightlies or lightning+all_providers.

Comment 12

[Todd Zimmerman]

I can confirm this issue is fixed when using Sunbird build Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070823 Calendar/0.7pre and a local build of gdata-provider 0.2.2

Comment 13

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Verified based on Comment #12

Comment 14

[klint]

Hi
I support Steffen's request in comment #11. I do not have any build environment, and I would even not know how to build :)But I do participate by using hence testing Lightning 0.7 and the google calendar provider on a every day-life basis. 
Though, I had to revert to an old 0.7 nightly due to this bug, and I'm not able to test the newest ones for that reason only.
Philipp, is there something that you or someone else could do to help people like me  ? Many thanks in advance (and many thanks for the work done so far, of course :D )

Comment 15

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

klint, Steffen: I'm evaluating some possibilities of uploading nightlies. It seems AMO doesn't allow having one version not-approved and in the sandbox while another version is public and also doesn't provide updates. It is probably best to create an upload script for mozdev and upload the binaries there. There I can create a custom update.rdf and push my nightlies.

Please be so kind and open a new bug for this and assign to me, I'll take care of it soon

Comment 16

[klint]

Philipp : I just have filed bug 393853 for you - but I don't know how to assign it to you officially ! Thanks

Comment 17

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

One solution to support both old and new builds of Sunbird/Lightning might be to change the extension source code from

    date.normalize();

to

    if (date.normalize) {
        date.normalize();
    }

Comment 20

[Chris Beck]

latest gdata nightly build ( 25/sept/2007 ) fixes this for all lightning build up to 27/sept/2007 but it is broken again as of 28/sept/2007

Comment 21

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #20)
You are using a unsupported test build - be creative and help yourself ;)
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3089908#3089908