On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:16:53PM -0400, Matt Sisk said:
> I just noticed Data::ICal out on the CPAN and was wondering if you'd taken a
> look at it. It seems fairly comprehensive on parsing and generating ICal data.
> Perhaps it's worth keeping an eye on for potential use in the various ICal
> datetime modules (though "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" probably applies in
> this case).
FWIW I wrote Data::ICal::DateTime which puts various DateTime based
convenience wrappers round Data::ICal
For example
use Data::ICal::DateTime; # uses mixins
my $span = DateTime::Span( start => $d1, end => $d2 );
my $ical = Data::ICal->new( filename => $ics );
foreach my $events ($ical->events($span)) {
print "Start: ".$event->start; # start is a DT object
print "End: ".$event->end; # ditto
# ...
}
events() in this case will automatically generate all the recurring
event instances within that $span including handling Recurrence-IDs
(which are how you add additional data to a recurring event instance -
for example generate a Birthday recurring event and then note that the
location is so and so restaurant this year).
It also has the ability to 'explode' multi period events by doing
something like
->events($span, 'day')
I'm currently using it to write a calendering web app that can aggregate
several sources (including syndicated web accessible .ics files) and as
I go along I'm unconvering several little interface quirks and bugs but
it seems to be working out well so far.
All comments and suggestions gratefully received.
Simon
