Groovy Support

Content Builder

Constructing iCalendar and vCard object models can be quite a tedious process in Java, however the Groovy-based ContentBuilder simplifies this task:

vCard

def builder = new ContentBuilder()
def card = builder.vcard() {
    version(value: '4.0')
    fn(value: 'test')
    n(value: 'example')
    photo(value: 'http://example.com/photo', parameters: [value('uri')])
}
card.validate()

Where a property doesn't require any parameters the syntax may be even more concise:

def builder = new ContentBuilder()
def card = builder.vcard() {
    version('4.0')
    fn('test')
    n('example')
    photo(value: 'http://example.com/photo', parameters: [value('uri')])
}
card.validate()

Property parameters that are not required for property construction may also be nested:

def builder = new ContentBuilder()
def card = builder.vcard() {
    version('4.0')
    fn('test')
    n('example') {
        value('text')
    }
    photo(value: 'http://example.com/photo', parameters: [value('uri')])
}
card.validate()

Attach a photo as encoded binary data:

def builder = new ContentBuilder()
def card = builder.vcard() {
    version('4.0')
    fn('test')
    n('example') {
        value('text')
    }
    photo(new File('http://example.com/photo.png').bytes.encodeBase64() as String)
}
card.validate()

iCalendar

def builder = new ContentBuilder()
def calendar = builder.calendar() {
    prodid('-//Ben Fortuna//iCal4j 1.0//EN')
    version('2.0')
    vevent() {
        uid('1')
        dtstamp(new DtStamp())
        dtstart('20090810', parameters: parameters() {
            value('DATE')})
        action('DISPLAY')
        attach('http://example.com/attachment', parameters: parameters() {
            value('URI')})
    }
}

Attach a vCard to an iCalendar object:

import net.fortuna.ical4j.model.property.DtStamp

def icalendar = new net.fortuna.ical4j.model.ContentBuilder();
def vcard = new net.fortuna.ical4j.vcard.ContentBuilder();

def card = vcard.vcard() {
    version(value: '4.0')
    fn(value: 'test')
    n(value: 'example')
    photo(value: 'http://example.com/photo', parameters: [value('uri')])
}
card.validate()
//println(card)

def calendar = icalendar.calendar() {
    prodid('-//Ben Fortuna//iCal4j 1.0//EN')
    version('2.0')
    vevent() {
        uid('1')
        dtstamp(new DtStamp())
        dtstart('20090810', parameters: parameters() {
            value('DATE')})
        action('DISPLAY')
        attach('http://example.com/attachment', parameters: parameters() {
            value('URI')})
        attach(card.toString(), parameters: parameters() {
            fmttype('text/vcard')
            encoding('8BIT')
            value('TEXT')})
    }
}

calendar.validate()
println(calendar)

Groovlet

Here is an example Groovlet that parses a specified calendar and outputs all of the event summaries in HTML:

import net.fortuna.ical4j.data.CalendarBuilder
import net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Calendar
import net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Component
import net.fortuna.ical4j.model.component.VEvent

html.html {
    head {
        title "Event Summary"
    }

    body {
        def builder = new CalendarBuilder()
        def calendar = builder.build(new URL(request.getParameter("u")).openStream())

        if (calendar.getProperty("X-WR-CALNAME")) {
            h1 calendar.getProperty("X-WR-CALNAME").getValue()
        }
        else if (calendar.getProperty("X-WR-CALDESC")) {
            h1 calendar.getProperty("X-WR-CALDESC").getValue()
        }
        else {
            h1 "Event Summary"
        }

        table {
            tbody {
                for (event in calendar.getComponents(Component.VEVENT)) {
                    if (event.getSummary()) {
                        tr {
                            td event.getSummary().getValue()
                            td event.getStartDate().getDate()
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

GSP

Here is an [article] demonstrating iCal4j and http://groovy.codehaus.org/GSP GSP integration.

Grails - iCalendar Plugin

Here is an introduction how to use iCal4j and Grails with the iCalendar Grails Plugin.

Using Grape

You can also use [Grape] to manage your iCal4j dependencies, however you will need to add the Modularity Maven repositories to your http://groovy.codehaus.org/Grape#Grape-CustomizeIvysettings Grape config as follows:

  ...
  
    
      ...
      
    
  

Then you can use scripts like this without any dependency configuration required:

import net.fortuna.ical4j.vcard.ContentBuilder
import net.fortuna.ical4j.model.property.DtStamp

@Grab(group='org.mnode.ical4j', module='ical4j', version='1.0.2')
@Grab(group='org.mnode.ical4j', module='ical4j-vcard', version='0.9.6.2')
def getCalendar() {
    def builder = new ContentBuilder()
    builder.calendar() {
        prodid('-//Ben Fortuna//iCal4j 1.0//EN')
        version('2.0')
        vevent() {
            uid('1')
            dtstamp(new DtStamp())
            dtstart('20090810', parameters: parameters() {
                value('DATE')})
            action('DISPLAY')
            attach('http://example.com/attachment', parameters: parameters() {
                value('URI')})
        }
    }
}

println(calendar)

Connecting to a CalDAV Store

You can also use the iCal4j connector to connect to a CalDAV store (e.g. Google Calendar). For example:

import net.fortuna.ical4j.connector.dav.CalDavCalendarStore
import net.fortuna.ical4j.connector.dav.PathResolver
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.Protocol

class GCalPathResolver extends PathResolver {
  String getPrincipalPath(String username) {
    return "/calendar/dav/" + username + "/events/"
  }

  String getUserPath(String username) {
    return "/calendar/dav/" + username + "/user/"
  }
}

@Grab(group='net.fortuna.ical4j', module='ical4j-connector', version='0.9.1-SNAPSHOT')
@Grab(group='org.slf4j', module='slf4j-simple', version='1.5.3')
def getCollections() {
  def PRODID = "-//Ben Fortuna//iCal4j Connector 1.0//EN"
  def host = "www.google.com"
  def port = 443
  def path = "/calendar/dav/"
  def protocol = Protocol.getProtocol("https")
  def pathResolver = new GCalPathResolver()
  def store = new CalDavCalendarStore(PRODID, host, port, protocol, pathResolver)
  store.connect('', ''.toCharArray())
  def collections = store.collections
}

collections.each() {
  println "${it.description}: ${it.components.size()}"
}