Use Cases

We're going to follow a scenario where a user creates a calendar event, invites several people for it and tries to book a room for it. Next, the room booking succeeds and some people accept the invitation.

All event information is accessed through a storage manager:

>>> from calcore import cal
>>> m = cal.StorageManager()

Our storage manager needs to have an actual storage to work with. We'll create one and will add it to the storage manager:

>>> storage = cal.MemoryStorage('storage')
>>> m.setStorage(storage)

We also need to create some people. How (potential) attendees are retrieved depends on the particular application. We'll use the SimpleAttendeeSource here:

>>> s = cal.SimpleAttendeeSource(m)

First we need to fill it with some people are attendees. They need a unique identifier, and we'll also give them a name as the second argument:

>>> martijn = s.createIndividual('martijn', 'Martijn')
>>> florent = s.createIndividual('florent', 'Florent')
>>> bob = s.createIndividual('bob', 'Bob')

There's also a room attendee, which has a policy to always accept invitations if it's possible, i.e. there is no other event defined yet in that timeframe:

>>> room1 = s.createRoom('room1', 'Room 1', 
...     on_invite=cal.acceptIfPossible)

Now Florent will create a tentative event for a meeting on april 10, 2005, at 4 pm, lasting an hour:

>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta
>>> meeting = florent.createEvent(
...    dtstart=datetime(2005, 4, 10, 16, 00),
...    duration=timedelta(minutes=60), 
...    status='TENTATIVE',
...    title="Florent's Meeting")

When Florent now checks his events for april, he'll see the meeting:

>>> april = (datetime(2005, 4, 1), datetime(2005, 5, 1))
>>> events = florent.getEvents(april)
>>> len(events)
1
>>> events[0] == meeting
True
>>> events[0].title
"Florent's Meeting"

Since he's the organizer, he has automatically accepted the event:

>>> events[0].getParticipationStatus(florent)
'ACCEPTED'

Martijn, Bob and Room 1 are still not invited:

>>> martijn.getEvents(april)
[]
>>> bob.getEvents(april)
[]
>>> room1.getEvents(april)
[]

Now Florent invites Martijn and Bob, and also wants to book room1:

>>> meeting.invite([room1, martijn, bob])

All these attendees will now see the event too:

>>> result = []
>>> for attendee in [martijn, bob, room1]:
...    events = attendee.getEvents(april)
...    result.append(events[0] == meeting)
>>> result
[True, True, True]

The status for Martijn and Bob will be 'NEEDS-ACTION':

>>> [meeting.getParticipationStatus(attendee) for attendee in 
...  [martijn, bob]]
['NEEDS-ACTION', 'NEEDS-ACTION']

Room 1 has been configured to automatically accept invitations if there is not another other booking for that time yet:

>>> meeting.getParticipationStatus(room1)
'ACCEPTED'

Martijn will now see that there action items:

>>> events = martijn.getEvents(april, 
...  cal.SearchCriteria(participation_status='NEEDS-ACTION'))
>>> len(events)
1

He checks out the event:

>>> events[0].title
"Florent's Meeting"

and accepts it:

Fetch the real event
>>> event = events[0]
>>> event.setParticipationStatus(martijn, 'ACCEPTED')
>>> event.getParticipationStatus(martijn)
'ACCEPTED'

There are no more action items for Martijn:

>>> martijn.getEvents(april, 
...   cal.SearchCriteria(participation_status='NEEDS-ACTION'))
[]

Florent can try to reinvite Martijn, but Martijn will remain accepted:

>>> meeting.invite([martijn])
>>> meeting.getParticipationStatus(martijn)
'ACCEPTED'

Florent can get a list of all events he is the organizer of:

>>> events = florent.getOrganizedEvents()
>>> len(events)
1
>>> events[0].title
"Florent's Meeting"

Florent decides in the end it was all a mistake, and the event is removed:

>>> m.deleteEvent(events[0])
>>> events = florent.getOrganizedEvents()
>>> len(events)
0