kiranpanesar/mxlcalendarmanager

A set of classes used to parse and handle iCalendar (.ICS) files

MXLCalendarManager

A set of classes to parse and handle iCalendar (.ICS) files. The framework can parse through an iCalendar file and extract all VEVENT objects into MXLCalendarEvent items. Then, by running the checkDate: or checkDay:month:year you can see if the event occurs on a certain day.

Installation

The recommended installation is via CocoaPods.

pod 'MXLCalendarManager'

Any questions or comments? Feel free to email me or send me a tweet.

mxlcalendarmanager's Issues

checkDate in MXLCalendarEvent

In my application I found an issue, wherein the method checkdate would return true for an event, even if it didn't exist for a particular date, If the event was less than 24 hours apart from the date selected.

I used the solution from here, which fixed it for me:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12257937/get-number-of-days-between-two-nsdate-dates-in-a-particular-timezone

If this is not a real issue, then please close this.

Cant run the Demo ICS Exporter

It Shows 28 Apple Mach-O Linker error

Does this library work in Swift?

Hi, does this library work in Swift?
Thank you.

CocoaPod Support

RRULE BYDAY not working properly

Hi!

First of all, congrats on this parser! It's really great! However I found out that the BYDAY RRULE is not take into account. For instance, this event:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160311T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160311T103000
RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2FR
DTSTAMP:20161018T143425Z
UID:[email protected]
CLASS:PUBLIC
CREATED:20160224T023810Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20160822T045008Z
LOCATION:Some Location
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY: The Summary
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

should only occur on the 2nd Friday every month and now it's repeating every Friday.

I know you have this block of code for that:

// These checks are to catch if the event is set to repeat on a particular weekday of the month (e.g., every third Sunday)
if (repeatRuleByDay && ![repeatRuleByDay containsObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"1%@", dayString]]) {
    if (repeatRuleByDay && ![repeatRuleByDay containsObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"2%@", dayString]]) {
        if (repeatRuleByDay && ![repeatRuleByDay containsObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"3%@", dayString]]) {

            return NO;
         }
    }
}

but this isn't working.

Can you help me with this?

Thanks in advance

daylight saving time issue

I have verified that MXLCalendarManager does not take into account daylight saving time to determine an event start and end time. Here is an example.

Suppose you have an event starting Sunday March 23 2014 at 2.00 AM, ending at 3.00 AM and recurring each week until the end of the year. Now, in Italy, on Sunday 30 there will be the daylight saving time change exactly at 2.00 AM (because we are at +1 hour offset from GMT). So, the clock at 2.00AM must be set to 3.00 AM. The net effect on the previous event is that the event on Sunday 30 in Italy will start at 3.00 AM and will end at 4.00 AM due to daylight saving time. This will happen only on Sunday 30; on all of the other occurrences the event will start at 2.00 AM and will end at 3.00 AM (note that on Sunday October 26 2014, daylight saving time will change again in Italy, but since this time at 3.00 AM we set the clock at 2.00 AM, the event will occur from 2.00 AM to 3.00 AM).

You can verify this entering the previous event on any iCalendar compliant calendaring app, such as Calendar on Mac OS X Mavericks (just modify the event according to your country daylight saving time). So, a compliant calendaring app must handle event start/end times overlapping (fully or partially) daylight saving times. Timezones are strictly related, since each timezone can have an arbitrary daylight saving time (see the official database, available at http://www.iana.org/time-zones or, informally, http://www.worldtimezone.com/daylight.html)

How to get ICS file categories

I am using mxlcalendarmanager library,it is working fine but in our ics file we have categories also how can i get categories using your library

Event does not exist on start day

I am doing something as simple as this and it is returning false:

print(event.checkDate(event.eventStartDate))

I don't understand how an event would not even occur on its start date..?

Issue when EventDescription already have \n in it

Well i am in a situation where the ical file is generated from a website with a visual interface and if user press enter in that visual interface it will automatically add \n for each enter user press

now when i am parsing that ical file using this lib , everything is working fine except that EventDescription in ical event , library parse the event description but don't remove complete \n it just get rid only \ so my event description have "n" for everywhere when there is "\n"

Example event description : this is my super \n\n cool event description yeah
Output : this is my super nn cool event description yeah
Expectation: this is my super nn cool event description yeah

UITableView's first cell is not visible for June 2014

when ever i select a month in which there are 6 rows - tableview attached below is overlapped by calendar - so first cell remains untappable

.ics file not parsing completely

Hi,

Description is not parsing. it is only parsing start date, end date of event. also there is no options to add custom view. It is showing only table format.

Please help me.

Thanks :)

Set attendees in convertToEKEventOnDate?

I'm working with invitations and need to set the attendees property on EKEvent. Is there a way to do this?

Ability to display timezone abbreviation

Does anybody know the correct way to generate the 3-character abbreviation from an NSTimeZone (e.g., CET, CST, GMT)? I had a hacky method which I thought worked, but it causes a crash on some timezones.

Let me know and/or submit a pull request!

Support for attendees

Common systax is:

ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN=Bill mendoza:mailto:[email protected]