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* icalendar event without description field fails on export
@ 2019-10-15  8:10 Eric S Fraga
  2019-10-15  9:51 ` Robert Pluim
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2019-10-15  8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding

If I receive a calendar invite which has no description field, the
gnus-icalendar-event-export function fails with a nil string.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil)
  #f(compiled-function (event reply-status) "Return string with new `org-mode' entry describing EVENT." #<bytecode 0x156bee96abd1>)(#<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330> nil)
  apply(#f(compiled-function (event reply-status) "Return string with new `org-mode' entry describing EVENT." #<bytecode 0x156bee96abd1>) #<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330> nil)
  gnus-icalendar-event->org-entry(#<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330> nil)
  gnus-icalendar:org-event-save(#<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330> nil)
  #f(compiled-function (event reply-status) #<bytecode 0x156bee6e19b1>)(#<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330> nil)
  apply(#f(compiled-function (event reply-status) #<bytecode 0x156bee6e19b1>) #<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330> nil)
  gnus-icalendar-event:sync-to-org(#<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330> nil)
  gnus-icalendar-sync-event-to-org(#<gnus-icalendar-event-request gnus-icalendar-event-request-156bee49f330>)
  gnus-icalendar-event-export()
  funcall-interactively(gnus-icalendar-event-export)
  call-interactively(gnus-icalendar-event-export nil nil)
  command-execute(gnus-icalendar-event-export)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.4 on Debian bullseye/sid




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* Re: icalendar event without description field fails on export
  2019-10-15  8:10 icalendar event without description field fails on export Eric S Fraga
@ 2019-10-15  9:51 ` Robert Pluim
  2019-10-15 13:14   ` Eric S Fraga
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Robert Pluim @ 2019-10-15  9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric S Fraga; +Cc: ding

>>>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:10:35 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:

    Eric> If I receive a calendar invite which has no description field, the
    Eric> gnus-icalendar-event-export function fails with a nil string.

Ah yes, I guess this is my fault. Does the following work for you?

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-icalendar.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-icalendar.el
index e4779f52c0..77e73e6606 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-icalendar.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-icalendar.el
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ gnus-icalendar-event->org-entry
         (narrow-to-region (point) (point))
         (insert (gnus-icalendar-event:org-timestamp event)
                 "\n\n"
-                description)
+                (or description "No description"))
         (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) 2)
         (fill-region (point-min) (point-max)))
 



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* Re: icalendar event without description field fails on export
  2019-10-15  9:51 ` Robert Pluim
@ 2019-10-15 13:14   ` Eric S Fraga
  2019-10-16  6:15     ` Robert Pluim
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2019-10-15 13:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding

On Tuesday, 15 Oct 2019 at 11:51, Robert Pluim wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:10:35 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:
>
>     Eric> If I receive a calendar invite which has no description field, the
>     Eric> gnus-icalendar-event-export function fails with a nil string.
>
> Ah yes, I guess this is my fault. Does the following work for you?

Your fix did the job.  Thanks.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.6 on Debian bullseye/sid




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* Re: icalendar event without description field fails on export
  2019-10-15 13:14   ` Eric S Fraga
@ 2019-10-16  6:15     ` Robert Pluim
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Robert Pluim @ 2019-10-16  6:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric S Fraga; +Cc: ding

>>>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:14:04 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:

    Eric> On Tuesday, 15 Oct 2019 at 11:51, Robert Pluim wrote:
    >>>>>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:10:35 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:
    >> 
    Eric> If I receive a calendar invite which has no description field, the
    Eric> gnus-icalendar-event-export function fails with a nil string.
    >> 
    >> Ah yes, I guess this is my fault. Does the following work for you?

    Eric> Your fix did the job.  Thanks.

Thanks for testing. Fixed in emacs master.

Robert



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