[horde] import calendar events into kronolith - using xmlRPC?

[Ralf Lang]

On 21.01.2016 17:02, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
> 
> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> 
>> Zitat von Daniel <horde at daniu.de>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to the list - hope my request is in the right place here:
>>>
>>> My final goal is to get a calendar from google into kronolith.
>>> Unfortunately my provider did not setup kronolith so that I can do
>>> that with kronolith itsself so I think of a cron-job that does that
>>> with a php script (I am not talking about syncing - just copying the
>>> google calendar to kronolith. Since the google calendar itsself gets
>>> populated with a cron-job itsself it's ok to have accurate data only
>>> after copying). I can already read all appointments from google
>>> (caldav still works) - so I got a string with Vevent infos. The plan
>>> is to purge the existing calendar in kronolith and write all events
>>> from the string into the existing calendar.
>>>
>>> I tried to adjust this: http://theupstairsroom.com/66 but don't seem
>>> to get it working at all. Partly because I don't have access to horde
>>> sources on the server from which I connect to the Horde - so I need
>>> to use another RPC-client. I would like to use the RPC-client built
>>> in php (epinion.com) which is turned on according to phpinfo. Somehow
>>> I cannot really find a good tutorial how to do that.
>>>
>>> Adjusting a script from php.net gave me the attached attempt. That
>>> one does nothing unfortunately ... (but at least no error message)
>>>
>>> Can someone point me in the right direction? Or is there a simpler
>>> way to achieve what I want to do?
>>>
>>> Is https a problem for what I want to do? Are my adjustments for that
>>> correct?
>>>
>>> Looking at the api it seems like the purge function from import in
>>> the GUI did not make it in there ... any chance to still do it or get
>>> it in the api?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any input!
>>>
>>> (BTW: there is a sourceforge project with exactly that topic, but it
>>> does not work any more and the author did not maintain it - I even
>>> asked him and he says he cannot help -
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kron2gcalsync/)
>>>
>>> ***
>>> function do_call($host, $port, $request) {
>>>
>>>     $url = "https://$host:$port/";
>>>     //echo $url;
>>>     $header[] = "Content-type: text/xml";
>>>     $header[] = "Content-length: ".strlen($request);
>>>     $to['user']='username';
>>>     $to['pass']='password';
>>>     $userpwd = $to['user'] .":". $to['pass'];
>>>
>>>
>>>     $ch = curl_init();
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $userpwd);
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
>>>     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
>>>
>>>     $data = curl_exec($ch);
>>>     if (curl_errno($ch)) {
>>>         print curl_error($ch);
>>>     } else {
>>>         curl_close($ch);
>>>         return $data;
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
>>> $host="path/rpc.php";
>>> $port=443;
>>> $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('kronolith.listCalendars', array());
>>> $response = do_call($host, $port, $request);
>>> echo $response;
>>> ***
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
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>>
>> You want to use the kronolith-import-icals script that comes with
>> Kronolith.
> 
> This is correct, if you have shell access. If you don't, you should
> probably change to JSON as Jan suggests below. In newer versions of
> Horde we no longer support xmlrpc.

What's the reason behind that? Lack of application or is something
broken in a non-trivial way? Does this apply only to the horde-common
RPC interface or is the library code also unusable, preventing
generation of a custom xmlrpc endpoint for custom apps ?



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