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dvelopp
dvelopp

Reputation: 4305

Patching Google Event start-date and end-date without having all necessary data

I'm implementing the client that can patch Google Calendar Event via Calendar API v3 Client Library for Java.

method: 

com.google.api.services.calendar.Calendar.Events#patch

The problem that I faced is that start and end fields in com.google.api.services.calendar.model.Event entity are complex objects and require several things to be constructed:

  1. com.google.api.client.util.DateTime
  2. TimeZone

DateTime has fields called dateOnly that is set to true/false depending on whether the event is all day event or not. Here the problem comes. If I want to update only the date, and only the date is sent from my Front-End(without the flag whether it is all day event or dateOnly is applicable), I can't construct DateTime object because I don't know whether I should use constructor of DateTime with dateOnly set to true or set to false.

In terms if request, it's correct. Since we have PATCH, we can update particular fields without even touching the rest. However, in this case, since the field is rather complex, it's rather difficult to find the way no to update dateOnly flag, but to update value or tzShift.

I consider loading event from Google every time I do patch. Thus, I can read and set dateOnly flag to the old value. Is there a more convenient way to address the issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 337

Answers (1)

Priyank
Priyank

Reputation: 224

As per documentation in Events there is no dateOnly resource found. but you can use below options using patch Events: patch

{
    "start": {
       "date": "2017-05-05",
       "dateTime": "",
       "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles"
    },
    "end": {
       "date": "2017-05-06",
       "dateTime": "",
       "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles"
    }
}

Hope it may help you.

Upvotes: 0

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