Newlines in description

[mrjcleaver]

I was trying to put newlines in the description. Failed with a parse error.

Per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7830582/newline-for-google-calendar-api it turns out this needs to be json escaped. Tried using solution on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6783988/encode-a-ruby-string-to-a-json-string only to find that something objected to the leading and trailing quote.

      description_json = description.to_json
      description_json.gsub!(/\A"|"\Z/, '')

      event = @cal.create_event do |e|
        e.title = title
        e.start_time = time_object_start
        e.end_time = time_object_end
        e.description = description_json
      end

Is my ugly workaround.

[szich]

@mrjcleaver feel like improving the parse method so it properly escapes the strings?

[PandaWhisperer]

+1. Just ran into the same issue. Came here to find that there's already an issue for it.

PS: thanks for the workaround @mrjcleaver, you saved me a bunch of time.

[ziazek]

Using @mrjcleaver's workaround allows me to save a new event to Google Calendar, but the subsequent

cal.find_or_create_event_by_id('db8viph0q6cidplta2f2ji3lm4')

results in

Google::HTTPRequestFailed:
{
  "error": {
    "errors": [
    {
      "domain": "global",
      "reason": "parseError",
      "message": "Parse Error"
    }
    ],
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Parse Error"
  }
}

[ziazek]

Update: If I pass a block to find_or_create_event_by_id to update that same event, there is no error. The error only shows up when there's no block.