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Calendar Printer

This repo is an attempt to create a simple CLI calendar event generator using the ICalendar standard. An example has been copied from the ICalendar website:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//ZContent.net//Zap Calendar 1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Abraham Lincoln
UID:c7614cff-3549-4a00-9152-d25cc1fe077d
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=2;BYMONTHDAY=12
DTSTART:20080212
DTEND:20080213
DTSTAMP:20150421T141403
CATEGORIES:U.S. Presidents,Civil War People
LOCATION:Hodgenville\, Kentucky
GEO:37.5739497;-85.7399606
DESCRIPTION:Born February 12\, 1809\nSixteenth President (1861-1865)\n\n\n
 \nhttp://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com
URL:http://americanhistorycalendar.com/peoplecalendar/1,328-abraham-lincol
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END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

This example represents all accepted base properties of an .ics file using the ICalendar standard.

Current To Do:

  • Create Calendar Event model
  • Add all properties to Calendar Event
    • SUMMARY - Title of the Event
    • UID - Unique identifier with UUID format
    • SEQUENCE - Integer describing the number of revsions (starts at 0)
    • STATUS - "TENTATIVE", "CONFIRMED", or "CANCELLED"; indicates the state of an event
    • TRANSP - "TRANSPARENT" or "OPAQUE"; transparent events should be ignored when excluding time availability
    • RRULE
    • DTSTART - UTC Timestamp indicating when an event begins (inclusive)
    • DTEND - UTC Timestamp indicating when and event ends (exclusive)
    • DTSTAMP - UTC Timestamp indicating when an event was created
    • CATEGORIES - A comma delimited list of descriptive values for use in filtering and searching
    • LOCATION - A string description of a location. If the ALTREP property is used, a URI can be supplied to provide a more structured specification.
    • GEO
    • DESCRIPTION
    • URL
  • Create File Writing Class
  • Add customization of all properties to Calendar File writer
    • VERSION
    • PRODID
    • CALSCALE
    • METHOD
  • Create CalendarEventFactory class? Alternately, create static methods that generate CalendarEvents by template.
  • Create UI to Generate Calendar Events

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