Sanitize the calendar data coming from Gadgetbridge?

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Posted at 2024-03-21 by Pologram

Hello,

I am using the Rebble Agenda app and I noticed some weird artefacts (see attachment, event name redacted for privacy).

After further investigation, I saw that the artefacts actually come from the android.calendar.json file provided from Gadgetbridge.

Here is an example of an event with such artefacts:

{t:"calendar",id:85,type:0,timestamp:1711371600,durationInSeconds:3600,title:"redacted",description:"-::~:~::~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~::~:~::-\nParticiper via Google\xA0Meet\xA0: https://meet.google.com/redacted\nOu composez le\xA0: (FR) redacted Cod...",location:"",calName:"redacted",color:-6299161,allDay:false}

It looks like events that come from Google Workspace with a Google Meet invitation include some weird -::~:~::~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~::~:~::- separators that completely mess up the UI.

Another event is difficult to read because it has HTML tags in it:

description:"<html-blob><u></u><u></u><u></u><p><b>redacted &nbsp;</b>redacted</p><p><b><br></b></p><p><u><b>redacted&...

Would it be possible to "sanitize" this data coming from Gadgetbridge, maybe using a regex to remove HTML tags and separators?

It would subsequently fix all the apps that require the JSON file.

Thanks

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Posted at 2024-03-22 by @gfwilliams

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. It's something that would need to be done inside Gadgetbridge though.

I'll take a look and see how easy it is to get rid of stuff like that - however if Google change the format of invites then we'll probably have to change the regex again to try and strip them out.

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Posted at 2024-03-22 by @gfwilliams

Ok, I've just added some code, so tomorrow the Gadgetbridge nightlies should have the fix in.

I believe the HTML and :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ should now be stripped out

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Posted at 2024-03-22 by Pologram

Great, thanks. I will test tomorrow and report back.

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Posted at 2024-03-25 by Pologram

So I added the Gadgetbridge nightly repo on F-Droid, but the BangleJS Gadgetbridge Nightly app says "updated 4 days ago".

Latest version is 0.79.1-banglejs-717bc3035 and it does not include your fix

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Posted at 2024-03-27 by Pologram

I downloaded the APK directly from the website and it works! Thanks