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

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> 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 ?

Actually, I was confused. It's the SOAP interface that is no longer  
supported.I just tested the above using rpcxml, and it worked fine.

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