COMPLETED is strictly DATE-TIME
Milan Crha
mcrha at redhat.com
Tue Feb 6 05:52:25 PST 2018
Hi,
I just realized that since libical 3.0 the COMPLETED property is
provided as strictly DATE-TIME, while previous versions (like 2.0)
could save DATE there. I know RFC 5545 defines the property
as DATE-TIME only, but there are plenty of already saved components
which are DATE.
The worse is that when I try to save the date-only value into the
COMPLETED property, then it is changed to:
COMPLETED:00000000T000000
and when I read it back from the disk I receive:
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:Can't parse as DATE-TIME
value in COMPLETED property. Removing entire property: 00000000T000000
and when I try to load the already saved DATE value, it's turned into:
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=PARAMETER-VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:Invalid VALUE
type for property COMPLETED: VALUE=DATE
That's pretty bad behaviour, breaking backward compatibility, and the
most problematic I cannot just fix this on load, because it's the
parses which breaks it first (or I do not know how to do that).
Is there any way to deal with this situation gracefully, please?
Thanks and bye,
Milan
More information about the libical-devel
mailing list