886211 - Provider capability for number of categories supported

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Bug 316927 added multiple category support to the UI, but there is no way for a provider to specify if only one category is supported. This needs to be added.

See the capability for maximum number of alarms for an example.

Comment 1

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Hey Daniel, any updates? Could you take care of this bug?

Comment 2

[Daniel]

Hello Philipp,

I'm sorry, I'm quite busy now and won't be able to take of this bug anytime soon.

Comment 3

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Ok, thanks for the update. Reassigning to nobody, but we really need someone to take care of this in the next two weeks.

Comment 4

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Attachment: categories-capability.diff

This patch should take care and covers the following cases:

* zero categories supported: Hides the category box. 
  -- Calendar dropdown gets insanely large, but I wouldn't know what 
     to do about it right now. collapsing the box makes it look 
     strange, disabling seems unnatural to me too?
* one category supported: Shows no checkboxes and single-select
* Specific number of categories: when number is reached, other checkboxes
  are disabled
* Any number of categories (null, or -1)

You can test this by using the ics inspector extension (version 0.7 works, it should be on the AMO other versions page until its reviewed) and right clicking on a storage calendar, then evaluate javascript and enter: 

> target.setProperty("capabilities.categories.maxCount", value);

Where value is the max count to set.

I'd like to see this in Lightning 2.6, so I'd appreciate if you could give it a test run. Merge date is August 5th.

Comment 5

[Matthew Mecca [:mmecca]]

Comment on attachment 783436 [details] [diff] [review]
categories-capability.diff

Review of attachment 783436 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Looks good overall. r=mmecca

One minor issue: with max categories > 1, if the maximum amount of categories set, then the event is saved and re-opened, one additional category can then be selected.

::: calendar/base/content/widgets/calendar-widgets.xml
@@ +50,5 @@
>          <getter><![CDATA[
>            let categoryListbox = document.getAnonymousElementByAttribute(this, "anonid", "categories-listbox");
> +          if (this.maxCount == 1) {
> +            let selectedItem = categoryListbox.selectedItem;
> +            return selectedItem ? [selectedItem.getAttribute("value")] : []

missing a ';'

Also, the indentation of the javascript in this file doesn't match the rest of the file.

Comment 6

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Attachment: Fix - v2

Thanks, good catch! I've also noticed UX is a bit strange when switching from a calendar with 5 allowed categories to one with 3 allowed categories: the categories are initially still selected, when you unselect them they are disabled.

This is an edge case and would probably require some l10n string as explanation, so I think its ok to leave it as is. I think most providers will probably allow 1 or any number of categories.

Comment 7

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Attachment: Fix - v3

Ah we have some documentation in calICalendar.idl. I've updated the documentation, its formatting and also added the alarms maxCount capability which was missing.

Comment 8

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Comment on attachment 785170 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix - v3

And we also need this on aurora so its part of Lightning 2.6

Comment 9

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Comment on attachment 785170 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix - v3

Also approving for beta since the merge has happened.

Comment 10

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/88226d7b1bb9

Comment 11

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/b9eea1e38b28
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/3310f6f4512f