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C. Daboo Apple June 26, 2015 Smart Splitting of Recurring Events in CalDAV caldav-recursplit-02 Abstract This document defines an extension to CalDAV that allows calendar clients to split recurring events on the server in such a way as to preserve the original per-attendee data, such as alarms and participation status. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. New behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. Server Initiated Splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Appendix B. Change History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1. Introduction Internet calendaring and scheduling standards are defined by iCalendar [RFC5545] and iTIP [RFC5546]. The CalDAV Access [RFC4791] standard defines a way to access calendar data stored on a server, and the CalDAV Scheduling [RFC6638] draft defines how scheduling occurs between users of a CalDAV server. When dealing with recurring events defined in iCalendar, it is often necessary for the organizer of the events to apply a change from one of the recurrence instances on into the future (e.g., add a new attendee part way through the series of meetings). iCalendar supports a "RANGE" property parameter on the "RECURRENCE-ID" property that allows for a "THIS-AND-FUTURE" change to an existing set of recurring events. However, the "RANGE" behavior is not always implemented. Instead, clients split the recurring series into two separate events (different UIDs and thus different calendar object resources stored in a CalDAV calendar). One series contains all the instances up to the point where the change is made, and the other contains all the Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 1] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 instances from that point onwards. Typically this is done by truncating the recurrence rule in the existing resource and creating a new resource for the ongoing recurrence. However, when done that way, it results in any per-attendee data in the original resource for recurrence instances after the "split point" being lost - i.e., attendee loose all their status for the ongoing instances. What is more, due to the requirements of CalDAV scheduling, the "PARTSTAT" parameter on the "ATTENDEE" properties in the new calendar object resource will be forcibly reset to "NEEDS-ACTION", requiring attendees to re-accept/decline the ongoing recurrence series in the new calendar object resource. This is obviously a poor user experience that needs to be corrected. This specification defines a new CalDAV POST request action that causes the server to split an existing calendar object resource containing a recurring event, into two pieces at a specified "split point", such that per-attendee data and attendee participation status is preserved in the new calendar object resource created by the split. Once that is done, clients can then modify the new resource to make the actual "this-and-future" change that triggers the split. This specification does not cover the case of splitting of scheduled calendar data for attendees not hosted on the CalDAV server. Instead, existing existing procedures for sending iTIP messages have to be used to update the attendee data to account for the split, likely resulting in loss of per-attendee data. A future extension to iTIP might be possible to address that, but is not covered here. 2. Conventions Used in This Document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. When XML element types in the namespaces "DAV:" and "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav" are referenced in this document outside of the context of an XML fragment, the string "DAV:" and "CALDAV:" will be prefixed to the element type names respectively. The namespace "http://calendarserver.org/ns/" is used for XML elements defined in this specification. When XML element types in this namespace are referenced in this document outside of the context of an XML fragment, the string "CS:" will be prefixed to the element type names respectively. The prefix X-CALENDARSERVER- is used for all iCalendar properties, parameters and enumerated values defined in this extension. Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 2] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 3. New behavior A server supporting the features described in this specification MUST include "calendarserver-recurrence-split" as a field in the DAV response header from an OPTIONS request on a calendar home collection. To split an existing calendar object resource containing a recurring event, a client issues an HTTP POST resource with the request-uri set to the URI of the calendar object resource. The client also includes the following two URI query parameters, and one optional one: 1. "action" set to the value "split" - REQUIRED 2. "rid" set to an iCalendar format DATE or DATE-TIME value (with format choice determined as per description below) - REQUIRED 3. "uid" set to an iCalendar UID property value - OPTIONAL The "action" parameter is used to distinguish this operation from others that might be defined in the future for calendar object resources. The "rid" parameter specifies the date or date-time where the split is to occur. The actual split occurs at the next recurrence instance on or after the "rid" parameter value - the "split point". The "rid" parameter value is an iCalendar DATE or DATE-TIME value that follows that matched the event's DTSTART value as follows: +---------------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | DTSTART value | rid value | rid example | +---------------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | DATE | DATE | 20150626 | | DATE-TIME UTC | DATE-TIME UTC | 20150626T120000Z | | DATE-TIME local+time zone | DATE-TIME UTC | 20150626T120000Z | | DATE-TIME floating | DATE-TIME floating | 20150626T120000 | +---------------------------+--------------------+------------------+ The optional "uid" parameter can be used by the client to specify the iCalendar UID property value used in the new calendar object resource created by the server. In the absence of the "uid" parameter, the server will itself generate the UID value for the new calendar object resource. Clients MUST include both "action" and "rid" parameters in the POST request and MUST ensure a valid date-time value is used. The "rid" parameter value MUST NOT be earlier than the start time of the first instance of the recurrence set, and it MUST NOT be later than the Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 3] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 start time of the last instance of the recurrence set. If the "rid" parameter value is not of the correct format or missing, the server MUST return a DAV:error response with the CALDAV:valid-rid-parameter pre-condition code. If the "rid" parameter is valid, but outside of the allowed range, or the targeted calendar object resource is not recurring, then the server MUST return a DAV:error response with the CS:invalid-split pre-condition code. The server MUST reject any attempt by an attendee to split their copy of a scheduled calendar object resource - only organizers are allowed to split events. If the optional "uid" parameter is used by the client, and the server determines that the specified value is invalid (e.g., too short or too long as per reasonable requirements), then it MUST return a DAV:error response with the CS:invalid-split pre-condition code. Clients MAY include an HTTP "Prefer" request header including the value "return=representation" (see [RFC7240]). That instructs the server to return a WebDAV multistatus response containing two responses: one for the targeted resource and one for the new resource created as a result of the split. The multistatus response MUST include the DAV:getetag and CALDAV:calendar-data properties for each resource. In the absence of the "Prefer:return=representation" request header, the server MUST return an HTTP "Split-Component-URL" response header whose value is the URI of the new resource created as a result of the split. When a server receives a valid split request as described above, it does the equivalent of the following: 1. The existing resource is duplicated, preserving any per-user data such as alarms or transparency status. 2. The calendar data in the existing resource is modified as follows: A. Any overridden components with a "RECURRENCE-ID" property value prior to the split point are removed. B. Any "RDATE" or "EXDATE" property values prior to the split point are removed. C. Any "RRULE" property that only generates instances prior to the split point is removed. D. Any remaining "RRULE" property has its "COUNT" value adjusted by subtracting the number of instances prior to the split point. Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 4] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 E. The "DTSTART" property of the master instance is adjusted to the value of the first instance of the "RRULE" on or after the split point, or, in the absence of an "RRULE", to the first "RDATE" property value on or after the split point. 3. The calendar data in the new resource is modified as follows: A. Any overridden components with a "RECURRENCE-ID" property value on or after the split point are removed. B. Any "RDATE" or "EXDATE" property values on or after the split point are removed. C. Any "RRULE" property that only generates instances on or after the split point is removed. D. Any remaining "RRULE" property has an "UNTIL" value applied, with the until value being one second (for a "rid" DATE-TIME value) or one day (for a "rid" DATE value) less than the split point. E. The "UID" property of all components is changed to (the same) new value. F. Attendee participation status MUST NOT be changed. 4. The server MUST add a "RELATED-TO" property, with a "RELTYPE" parameter set to "X-CALENDARSERVER-RECURRENCE-SET", to all components of the existing and new resources, if one does not already exist. The new property value is set to a new auto- generated "UID" value. When an organizer splits a scheduled event, the server performs the following actions: 1. For each attendee hosted on the same server, the server MUST split the attendee's copy of the event in accordance with the split point used by the organizer. In doing so, it MUST preserve any per-attendee state (alarms, transparency, participation status) in the new resource (which also MUST have the same "UID" property value as the organizer's new resource). 2. For each attendee not hosted on the same server, the server will need to send a series of iTIP messages to correctly update the attendee with both the modified (old) resource data and the new resource. This will likely result in loss of per-attendee data such as alarms (though the participation status might be Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 5] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 preserved if the calendar user agent processing the new iTIP message for the new resource allows it). Note that, since attendees can be invited to specific instances of a recurring meeting (not necessarily the entire set), it is possible that either the old or new calendar data no longer contains any valid components since the attendee was not invited to the corresponding portions of the original split recurrence. In such cases, the server MUST remove the original resource, or MUST NOT create the new resource. 3.1. Example Assume the following iCalendar data is stored in the resource with URI "/event.ics": BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Example Inc.//Example Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140110T135358Z DTSTART:20140101T120000Z DURATION:PT1H SUMMARY:Example UID:DF400028-1223-4D26-92CA-B0ED3CC161F3 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=20 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR The client issues a POST split request to split the recurring event at the instance with date-time "20140110T120000Z": >> Request << POST /event.ics?action=split&rid=20140110T120000Z HTTP/1.1 Host: cal.example.com Content-Length: 0 Prefer: return=representation >> Response << HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status ETag: "5bc9a2b55081eba0a9cd34f742aa1c11" Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:02:20 GMT Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: xxxx Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 6] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <multistatus xmlns='DAV:'> <response> <href>/event.ics</href> <propstat> <prop> <getetag>"5bc9a2b55081eba0a9cd34f742aa1c11"</getetag> <calendar-data xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav' >BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Example Inc.//Example Calendar//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:DF400028-1223-4D26-92CA-B0ED3CC161F3 DTSTART:20140110T120000Z DURATION:PT1H DTSTAMP:20140110T135358Z RELATED-TO;RELTYPE=X-CALENDARSERVER-RECURRENCE-SET:8DE45ECB-8145- 4AEC-B3E1-11A9DB22A578 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=11 SUMMARY:Example END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR </calendar-data> </prop> <status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</status> </propstat> </response> <response> <href>/event-split.ics</href> <propstat> <prop> <getetag>"8b352ad2e0ca26c99cb205373b3dc34c"</getetag> <calendar-data xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav' >BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Example Inc.//Example Calendar//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:E3B9D6D4-E19F-47AA-9088-1A29A9A7030F DTSTART:20140110T120000Z DURATION:PT1H DTSTAMP:20140110T135358Z RELATED-TO;RELTYPE=X-CALENDARSERVER-RECURRENCE-SET:8DE45ECB-8145- 4AEC-B3E1-11A9DB22A578 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20140110T115959Z SUMMARY:Example END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR </calendar-data> Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 7] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 </prop> <status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</status> </propstat> </response> </multistatus> The original resource is changed to have a start date-time value of "20140110T120000Z", and the "COUNT" component of the "RRULE" property is adjusted to the value "11" (which represents the number of remaining instances for that event, 9 early instances having been removed). The new resource has the original start date-time value, and its "RRULE" property has an "UNTIL" value one second prior to the split point. Both resources have a "RELATED-TO" property with a "RELTYPE" parameter set to "X-CALENDARSERVER-RECURRENCE-SET" and a value set to a new "UID" value. 4. Server Initiated Splitting Servers can automatically split events that have already been stored by the client. The trigger for such splitting is up to the server (e.g., it can split when a recurring event exceeds a certain size, or when a certain number of instances are now in the past). When splitting, the server MUST use the approach outlined above - namely create a new calendar object resource for the past instances, truncate the existing calendar data and use the "RELATED_TO" property to link them. In other words, this will look exactly like a client- initiated split. 5. Security Considerations This specification does not introduce any more security considerations beyond those already listed in iCalendar [RFC5545], iTIP [RFC5546] and CalDAV Access [RFC4791] and CalDAV Scheduling [RFC6638]. 6. IANA Considerations TBD: new HTTP request header registration. 7. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and L. Dusseault, "Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)", RFC 4791, March 2007. Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 8] CalDAV Recurrence Splitting June 2015 [RFC5545] Desruisseaux, B., "Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)", RFC 5545, September 2009. [RFC5546] Daboo, C., "iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)", RFC 5546, December 2009. [RFC6638] Daboo, C. and B. Desruisseaux, "Scheduling Extensions to CalDAV", RFC 6638, June 2012. [RFC7240] Snell, J., "Prefer Header for HTTP", RFC 7240, June 2014. Appendix A. Acknowledgments This specification is the result of discussions between the Apple calendar server and client teams. Appendix B. Change History Changes since -02 1. Clarify that rid query parameter value matches the event DTSTART value type using the UNTIL "rules" 2. Clarify that earlier event uses an UNTIL one second or one day less that the "rid" value depending on the value type. Changes since -01 1. Added "uid" query parameter to POST request 2. New "RELATED-TO" is now a new UID value not the value of the new resource Author's Address Cyrus Daboo Apple Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 USA Email: cyrus@daboo.name URI: http://www.apple.com/ Daboo Expires December 28, 2015 [Page 9]