401710 - Unable to dismiss zero duration events

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Matthijs Tempels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 2.0.0.6 (20070728) + Lightning 0.5 + GData 0.3

when creating a zero duration event in lightning, dismissal of alarms fail with error 

General response failed: [Exception... "A request Error Occurred. Status Code: 400 Bad Request Body: Expecting an end time component in gd:when."  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Matthijs%20Tempels/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/o30f7efn.default/extensions/%7Ba62ef8ec-5fdc-40c2-873c-223b8a6925cc%7D/js/calGoogleCalendar.js :: cGC_general_response :: line 751"  data: no] 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create an event with the same start and end time with an alarm set
2. try to dismiss the alarm
3.
Actual Results:  
alarms never get dismissed

Expected Results:  
alarms never get dismissed

Already had contact with the projects maintainer Philipp Kewisch and a sollution has been found for me..

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Confirmed. This is a problem with Google, but there is a workaround.

See http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=198 for infos on the Google side.

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Attachment: Fix for zero length events

Workaround, r=dbo

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Matthijs, if you are using version 0.5, you might want to upgrade to 0.7. I wonder how gdata provider 0.3 is usable with 0.5 ?

Comment 4

[Matthijs Tempels]

Sorry,

my mistake :) i knew i was using the latest version, so i chose the latest version from the dropdown.. it is version 0.7 actually :-)

Matthijs

Comment 5

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Checked in on HEAD and MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH

-> FIXED