402539 - Description and location not preserved when moving instance of recurring event

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[Simon Vaillancourt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20071023 Sunbird/0.7

Moving an instance of a recurring event seems to drop the DESCRIPTION and LOCATION  for the moved instance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a 1 hour recurring event for 5 days, with a location and description
2.drag and drop the 3rd instance to another time slot
3.Notice that the description and location has not been set in the new exception instance
Actual Results:  
Before reschedule (I removed the irrelevant stuff) : 
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20071105T191500
SUMMARY: 5 ocu
DTSTAMP:20071105T144304Z
PRIORITY:0
SEQUENCE:0
LOCATION:Somewhere
UID:f1588e1e-6d5a-43fa-81b5-b48fef8570b6
LAST-MODIFIED:20071105T144304Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20071105T181500
TRANSP:OPAQUE
DESCRIPTION:my description
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=5;INTERVAL=1
CREATED:20071105T142000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

After modif
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20071105T191500
SUMMARY: 5 ocu
DTSTAMP:20071105T144304Z
PRIORITY:0
SEQUENCE:0
LOCATION:Somewhere
UID:f1588e1e-6d5a-43fa-81b5-b48fef8570b6
LAST-MODIFIED:20071105T144304Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20071105T181500
TRANSP:OPAQUE
DESCRIPTION:my description
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=5;INTERVAL=1
CREATED:20071105T142000Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20071108T101500
RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/Montreal:20071108T181500
SUMMARY: 5 ocu
DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20071108T091500
LAST-MODIFIED:20071105T144303Z
PRIORITY:0
DTSTAMP:20071105T144303Z
UID:f1588e1e-6d5a-43fa-81b5-b48fef8570b6
CREATED:20071105T144303Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR


Expected Results:  
The exception instance should have a DESCRIPTION and LOCATION property set with the same value as the master instance.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Please don't shout in bug summaries.

Comment 2

[Simon Vaillancourt]

It's common practice to use all uppercase letters to indicate the names of iCal properties, but in order to avoid blinding sensitive eyes I have edited the summary. 

Comment 3

[Bruno Browning]

Simon - I'm unable to replicate this with a current nightly and suspect that it has been fixed by a recent checkin (or two). Appreciate it if you could retest using a current nightly.

Comment 4

[Simon Vaillancourt]

Hi, I just tried with: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11pre) Gecko/20071204 Calendar/0.8pre

And can still reproduce the problem:
1) create a recurring daily event, count=5
2) drag-drop second instance one hour later
3) note that the description is not there anymore, in the put request, I see that the drag & dropped instance does not have the DESCRIPTION and LOCATION property.

Thanks

Comment 5

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

(In reply to comment #4)
I can reproduce that, but it's not a CalDAV problem. IMO it's the wrong exception/overridden item mimic I mentioned in bug 390492 comment #14 or bug 368976. When creating an exception/overridden item, we need to create full copies of the parent item. That's the iCalendar way of creating exceptions.

I'd like to point out that sunbird/lightning may already have produced dataloss this way.

Changing component to "Internal Components", marking wanted 0.8; falls into the same area of bugs.

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

We should fix dataloss bugs in 0.8

Comment 7

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Going on vacation, I won't have time left for this; this is wanted for 0.8 though.

Comment 8

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Fixed with bug 368976.

Comment 9

[Andreas Treumann]

Checked in lightning 20080561918 -> VERIFIED.