502779 - recurring events don't import / export correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427617

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[Ali Sobhi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060403 Red Hat/3.0.11-2.el5_3 (CK-IBM) (CK-IBM) Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: 2008091718

Importing a simple iCal with a single recurring event causes an error
(see trythis.ics)

In addition a 3-day recurring event in Lighting exports as a 3 separate events in the iCal format (should be a sinlge event with RDATE or similar)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ali Sobhi]

Attachment: a simple recurring event generated by Lotus Notes 8 in iCal format

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

The import works fine for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090818 Calendar/1.0pre.

Issue 1:
Do you see any error message in Tools > Error Console during the failure? If yes please copy and paste them here.

Issue 2:
Repeating events are only exported if you export the entire calendar to the iCalendar format. If you export only the selected events it will export only the selected occurrences.

Comment 3

[Ali Sobhi]

Attachment: MediaWeekly recurring calendar entry

recurring calendar entry created by Lotus Notes 8.5

Comment 4

[Ali Sobhi]

I'm using version 2.0.0.22 (20090609) with Ligthning 0.9 on RHEL 5.3.
Attached file (MediaWeekly recurring calendar entry) is what I tried again which clearly contains recurring event. This does not import and generates error.
The following message is repeated 3 times on Tools > console:

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [calIRecurrenceItem.icalProperty]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///home/sobhi/.thunderbird/f6shuz77.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calItemModule.js -> file:///home/sobhi/.thunderbird/f6shuz77.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/js/calItemBase.js :: anonymous :: line 741"  data: no]
Source File: file:///home/sobhi/.thunderbird/f6shuz77.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calItemModule.js -> file:///home/sobhi/.thunderbird/f6shuz77.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/js/calItemBase.js
Line: 741

The PNG attachment is the screenshot of the error dialog

Comment 5

[Ali Sobhi]

Attachment: screen shot of error dialog during calender import

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

I checked the sample files, the issue is identical to the one fixed in Bug 427617 for Lightning 1.0b1.