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| author | Calvin Morrison <calvin@pobox.com> | 2026-08-22 13:16:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Calvin Morrison <calvin@pobox.com> | 2026-08-22 13:16:49 -0400 |
| commit | 8a3d2c99bff60cb775ebc42516c0c3912d54ba3d (patch) | |
| tree | fd136a3b7927146763cdc11e6be07c71f92bb92c /pim/rc/fetch | |
| parent | 9aacce8b3b54060d0037eca897856d7273e6e5e8 (diff) | |
pim: personal information management, starting with a calendar
A calendar as a file tree, and tools that only know the tree:
events/date/yyyy/mm/dd/hhmm-summary as lived
events/uuid/<uid>/ as stored
ctl query alarm changed
lib/cal owns all of that. A backend supplies events and, where its
protocol allows, takes changes back -- six methods. cmd/icalfs is the
first: it reads .ics files from a directory and nothing else, because
fetching is rc/fetch's job and hget already exists. That keeps
net/http out of the binary and makes a subscribed calendar and a local
one the same thing.
The tools are rc on purpose. If the tree needs a compiled program to be
useful, the tree is the wrong shape. Three things were added to the
tree because the rc port needed them: a path from an occurrence to its
event, epoch seconds beside RFC3339, and a numeric slot for all-day
events so test(1) can compare it.
ctl reports caps, so a tool can say "read only" instead of trying and
failing. A published .ics is read only: nowhere to PUT, and no
METHOD:REQUEST to reply to. CalDAV would be read write rsvp schedule,
and that is the next backend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'pim/rc/fetch')
| -rwxr-xr-x | pim/rc/fetch | 56 |
1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pim/rc/fetch b/pim/rc/fetch new file mode 100755 index 0000000..2208cc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/pim/rc/fetch @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +#!/bin/rc +# pim/fetch -- refresh a subscribed calendar from its url. +# +# pim/fetch $home/lib/cal/work.url $home/lib/cal/work.ics \ +# /mnt/pim/calendars/work/ctl +# +# ical/fs does not fetch: a subscribed calendar is a file somebody else +# wrote. This is that somebody. It writes the file only when the content +# actually changed, then pokes ctl so the server reloads at once instead +# of waiting to notice. +# +# The url of a private calendar is a secret, so it is read from a file +# rather than passed as an argument where ps(1) would show it. +rfork e + +if(! ~ $#* 2 && ! ~ $#* 3){ + echo 'usage: fetch urlfile dest.ics [ctl]' >[1=2] + exit usage +} +urlfile=$1 +dest=$2 +ctl=$3 + +if(! test -r $urlfile){ + echo 'pim/fetch: cannot read '^$urlfile >[1=2] + exit nourl +} +url=`{sed -n '/^#/d; /^$/d; s/["'']//g; p; q' $urlfile} +if(~ $#url 0){ + echo 'pim/fetch: no url in '^$urlfile >[1=2] + exit nourl +} + +tmp=$dest.new +if(! hget $"url > $tmp){ + rm -f $tmp + echo 'pim/fetch: fetch failed' >[1=2] + exit fetch +} +if(! test -s $tmp){ + rm -f $tmp + echo 'pim/fetch: empty response' >[1=2] + exit empty +} + +# a fetch that changes nothing must not rebuild the tree or wake watchers +if(test -f $dest) + if(cmp -s $tmp $dest){ + rm -f $tmp + exit 0 + } +mv $tmp $dest +if(! ~ $#ctl 0) + if(test -f $ctl) + echo refresh >$ctl +exit 0 |
