radicale/radicale_vobject/__init__.py
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"""
VObject Overview
================
vobject parses vCard or vCalendar files, returning a tree of Python objects.
It also provids an API to create vCard or vCalendar data structures which
can then be serialized.
Parsing existing streams
------------------------
Streams containing one or many L{Component<base.Component>}s can be
parsed using L{readComponents<base.readComponents>}. As each Component
is parsed, vobject will attempt to give it a L{Behavior<behavior.Behavior>}.
If an appropriate Behavior is found, any base64, quoted-printable, or
backslash escaped data will automatically be decoded. Dates and datetimes
will be transformed to datetime.date or datetime.datetime instances.
Components containing recurrence information will have a special rruleset
attribute (a dateutil.rrule.rruleset instance).
Validation
----------
L{Behavior<behavior.Behavior>} classes implement validation for
L{Component<base.Component>}s. To validate, an object must have all
required children. There (TODO: will be) a toggle to raise an exception or
just log unrecognized, non-experimental children and parameters.
Creating objects programatically
--------------------------------
A L{Component<base.Component>} can be created from scratch. No encoding
is necessary, serialization will encode data automatically. Factory
functions (TODO: will be) available to create standard objects.
Serializing objects
-------------------
Serialization:
- Looks for missing required children that can be automatically generated,
like a UID or a PRODID, and adds them
- Encodes all values that can be automatically encoded
- Checks to make sure the object is valid (unless this behavior is
explicitly disabled)
- Appends the serialized object to a buffer, or fills a new
buffer and returns it
Examples
--------
>>> import datetime
>>> import dateutil.rrule as rrule
>>> x = iCalendar()
>>> x.add('vevent')
<VEVENT| []>
>>> x
<VCALENDAR| [<VEVENT| []>]>
>>> v = x.vevent
>>> utc = icalendar.utc
>>> v.add('dtstart').value = datetime.datetime(2004, 12, 15, 14, tzinfo = utc)
>>> v
<VEVENT| [<DTSTART{}2004-12-15 14:00:00+00:00>]>
>>> x
<VCALENDAR| [<VEVENT| [<DTSTART{}2004-12-15 14:00:00+00:00>]>]>
>>> newrule = rrule.rruleset()
>>> newrule.rrule(rrule.rrule(rrule.WEEKLY, count=2, dtstart=v.dtstart.value))
>>> v.rruleset = newrule
>>> list(v.rruleset)
[datetime.datetime(2004, 12, 15, 14, 0, tzinfo=tzutc()), datetime.datetime(2004, 12, 22, 14, 0, tzinfo=tzutc())]
>>> v.add('uid').value = "randomuid@MYHOSTNAME"
>>> print x.serialize()
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:randomuid@MYHOSTNAME
DTSTART:20041215T140000Z
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=2
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
"""
from .base import newFromBehavior, readOne, readComponents
from . import icalendar, vcard
def iCalendar():
return newFromBehavior('vcalendar', '2.0')
def vCard():
return newFromBehavior('vcard', '3.0')