cal-inject

Calendar injection utility to inject the contents of an ICS file into a DBF file to be used by cal 1.04 for DOS

Quick Start

Build project

• git clone https://github.com/cml37/cal-inject.git
• cd cal-inject
• gradlew shadowJar

Configure project

• You can optionally configure the following configuration options:
  • Edit cal-inject-prefs.yml to point to your databaseFileName
  • Edit cal-inject-prefs.yml to set a watchPathBase
  • Edit cal-inject-prefs.yml to set the recurringEventNumberOfYears which specifies how many years of recurring events will be created for recurring events without an end date

Run Project

• Run java -jar -Dlog4j.configuration=file:"src/main/java/log4j.properties" build\libs\cal-inject-all.jar
• Copy samples\sample.ics to the "input" directory under your watchBasePath (i.e., the default is watched\input)
• The file sample.ics should move to the "processing" directory under your watchBasePath and start to process
• The file sample.ics should move to the "output" directory under your watchBasePath
• From there, you can open the databaseFileName in a program such as DBF Viewer 2000 and see the added rows from the sample.ics file!
• The application will continue to watch for additional "input" files until terminated

Known issues and enhancements

• Better error handling (i.e. should we re-attempt processing files stuck in processing?)
• Make some decisioning on how we handle recurring events.
  • We are not taking advantage of the recurrence for cal for DOS, but instead are setting recurring dates as static dates