Declined invitations are added to calendar anyway. (Bugzilla Bug 1334522)

[kewisch]

Bugzilla Bug 1334522

Date: 2017-01-27T17:31:52+01:00
From: John <bugzilla@irowat.ca>
Assigned To: nobody

Last updated: 2019-09-11T13:21:41+02:00

[kewisch]

Comment 12016569

Date: 2017-01-27 17:31:52 +0100
From: John <bugzilla@irowat.ca>

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0
Build ID: 20170125094131

Steps to reproduce:

Event invitations that I decline in Thunderbird are added to my Google Calendar anyway.

To reproduce:
0) Set up Thunderbird 45.7.0 (current version) on Windows 10 and configure an email account

1. Install Lightning 4.7.7 and Provider For Google Calendar 3.1 (all current versions)
2. Configure a Google Calendar in Lightning and sync it.
3. Receive an invitation to an event in Thunderbird
4. Decline the invitation to the event.

Actual results:

The event is added to my Google Calendar, shows in Lightning, and syncs to my other devices. I am listed as the organiser of the event.

Expected results:

The event is not added to the calendar.

[kewisch]

Comment 12018549

Date: 2017-01-28 11:33:24 +0100
From: [:MakeMyDay] <makemyday@gmx-topmail.de>

Is this your primary Google calendar?

Can you please check in the online Google calendar UI, whether the event is already added to your calendar serverside before you're replying? And if so, whether or not your participation status has changed after declining the invitation in Lightning?

Also, can you please enable calendar.debug.log and calendar.debug.log.verbose in the advanced preferences, clear the error console, reproduce the issue and attach/post the log messages you got to, so we can see what Lightning has effectively sent to the Google server?

[kewisch]

Comment 12019752

Date: 2017-01-29 23:48:05 +0100
From: John <bugzilla@irowat.ca>

This is my primary Google calendar and the only Calendar set up in Thunderbird. The email account is an IMAP account that is not my Google account.

Before I interact with the event (beyond reading the invitation) it does not appear in Lightning or in Google Calendar. It is added to the calendar when I decline the invite.

Enabled the debug log and verbose log, cleared console, and clicked "decline". Result:

======================================================================
[calGoogleRequest] Requesting POST https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/john.__MYNAME__%40gmail.com/events/import

[calGoogleCalendar] Setting Upload Data (application/json; charset=UTF-8):
{"start":{"dateTime":"2017-01-29T00:00:00Z","timeZone":"UTC"},"end":{"dateTime":"2017-01-29T01:00:00Z","timeZone":"UTC"},"iCalUID":"_MYUID_@google.com","created":"2017-01-29T22:30:45.000Z","updated":"2017-01-29T22:36:50.000Z","summary":"Stuff","description":"View your event at https://www.google.com/calendar/event?__CODE__","transparency":"opaque","sequence":"0","status":"confirmed","reminders":{"overrides":[],"useDefault":false}}

[calGoogleCalendar] Request POST https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/john.__MYNAME__%40gmail.com/events/import responded with HTTP 200

[calGoogleCalendar] Parsing entry:
{
 "kind": "calendar#event",
 "etag": "\"2971458820290000\"",
 "id": "__MYUID__",
 "status": "confirmed",
 "htmlLink": "https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=__CODE__",
 "created": "2017-01-29T22:36:50.000Z",
 "updated": "2017-01-29T22:36:50.256Z",
 "summary": "Stuff",
 "description": "View your event at https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=__CODE__",
 "creator": {
  "email": "john.__MYNAME__@gmail.com",
  "displayName": "John __MYNAME__",
  "self": true
 },
 "organizer": {
  "email": "john.__MYNAME__@gmail.com",
  "displayName": "John __MYNAME__",
  "self": true
 },
 "start": {
  "dateTime": "2017-01-28T19:00:00-05:00"
 },
 "end": {
  "dateTime": "2017-01-28T20:00:00-05:00"
 },
 "iCalUID": "__MYUID__@google.com",
 "sequence": 0,
 "reminders": {
  "useDefault": false
 }
}


[calGoogleCalendar] Adding Stuff succeeded
======================================================================

The event was called "Stuff" since it was a test. The person who invited me to the event is NOT listed as an attendee.

I have replaced my email address and the unique IDs of my calendar and the event in the logs above, surrounding them with UNDERSCORES. It's a little bit of privacy paranoia that I hope won't cause trouble with the investigation.

Anything else you need?

[marcdeop]

I am also affected by this bug.

Is there any work being done on the subject? Can we supply more information that will help this get fixed?

Best regards,

Marc

[kewisch]

Would be great to get this tested in Thunderbird 91 with the Provider 91.0.2 which I am going to release soon. Here is a preview:
gdata-provider-91.0.2pre3.xpi.zip

Here are some steps to get more info:

1. Enable logging as per https://github.com/kewisch/gdata-provider/wiki/FAQ#enabling-debugging
2. Make sure you have all the scheduling and attendee options enabled in the Add-on Options
3. Maybe re-subscribe to the calendar
4. When you decline the invitation, do you get a message [calGoogleCalendar] Adding invitation event My Event Name ? Or does it say ...Adding regular event...
5. In the event data that is sent, does it properly show your email as an attendee and declined?
6. Does is properly set the other person as the organizer and you as an attendee?

[github-actions]

It looks like we haven't heard back on this issue, therefore we are closing this issue. If this problem persists in the latest version of Thunderbird and the Provider for Google Calendar, please re-open this issue.