What is the best approach to duplicate the Google Calendar? - calendar

What I'm trying to do here is create a Java program that will continuously sync all events from my Calendar1 to my Calendar2 EXCEPT for events under a certain condition (say I have marked as "maybe attend")
So far I've got some sample code up and running that allows me to connect to the Google Calendar via their SDK.
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/
I've gotten as far as being able to read events from Calendar1. Great.
Now I'm trying to put them into Calendar2. The first approach I tried is using Events.Import
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/import
But I got the following error:
com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 400 Bad Request
{
"code" : 400,
"errors" : [ {
"domain" : "calendar",
"message" : "The owner of the calendar must either be the organizer or an attendee of an event that is imported.",
"reason" : "participantIsNeitherOrganizerNorAttendee"
} ]
It appears that the I can only import into the "primary" calendar I suspect.
So from here, what approach should I take? Should I be doing Inserts? The only problem there is the next time I sync, I won't know which events from Calendar2 to edit. I can get the incremental changes from Calendar1 from the sync API. I just don't know how I would update Calendar2.

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Can I send an alert when a message is published to a pubsub topic?

We are using pubsub & a cloud function to process a stream of incoming data. I am setting up a dead letter topic to handle cases where a message cannot be processed, as described at Cloud Pub/Sub > Guides > Handling message failures.
I've configured a subscription on the dead-letter topic to retain messages for 7 days, we're doing this using terraform:
resource "google_pubsub_subscription" "dead_letter_monitoring" {
project = var.project_id
name = "var.dead_letter_sub_name
topic = google_pubsub_topic.dead_letter.name
expiration_policy { ttl = "" }
message_retention_duration = "604800s" # 7 days
retain_acked_messages = true
ack_deadline_seconds = 600
}
We've tested our cloud function robustly and consequently our expectation is that messages will appear on this dead-letter topic very very rarely, perhaps never. Nevertheless we're putting it in place just to make sure that we catch any anomalies.
Given the rarity of which we expect messages to appear on the dead-letter-topic we need to set up an alert to send an email when such a message appears. Is it possible to do this? I've taken a look through the alerts one can create at https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerting/policies/create however I didn't see anything that could accomplish this.
I know that I could write a cloud function to consume a message from the subscription and act upon it accordingly however I'd rather not have to do that, a monitoring alert feels like a much more elegant way of achieving this.
is this possible?
Yes, you can use Cloud Monitoring for that. Create a new policy and perform that configuration
Select PubSub Topic and Published message. Observe the value every minute and count them (aligner in the advanced option). Now, in the config, when it's above 0 from the most recent value, the alert is raised.
To filter on only your topic you can add a filter by topic_id on your topic name.
Then, configure your alert to send an email. It should work!

Google Smart Home Toggles Trait mysterious utterances

I'm struggling to complete the development for a SmartHome action on our security panels, involving different trait implementations (including ArmDisarm, Power, Thermostats, etc.).
One specific problem is related to Toggles Trait.
I need to accept commands to enable or disable intrusion sensor bypass/exclusion.
I've added to the SYNC response the following block, for instance, for a window sensor in the kitchen:
{
'id': '...some device id...',
'name': {'name': 'Window Sensor'},
'roomHint': 'Kitchen',
'type': 'action.devices.types.SENSOR',
'traits': 'action.devices.traits.Toggles',
'willReportState': true,
'attributes': {
'commandOnlyToggles': false,
'queryOnlyToggles': false,
'availableToggles': [
{
'name': 'bypass',
'name_values': {
{ 'name_synonym': ['bypass', 'bypassed', 'exclusion'}, 'lang': 'en'],
{ 'name_synonym': ['escluso', 'bypass', 'esclusa', 'esclusione'], 'lang': 'it'}
},
}
]
}
}
I was able to trigger the EXECUTE intent by saying
"Turn on bypass on Window Sensor" (although very unnatural).
I was able to trigger the QUERY intent by saying
"Is bypass on Window Sensor?" (even more unnatural).
These two utterances where found somewhere in a remote corner of a blog.
My problem is with Italian language (and also other western EU languages such as French/Spanish/German).
The EXECUTE Intent seems to be triggered by this utterance (I bet no Italian guy will ever say anything like that):
"Attiva escluso su Sensore Finestra"
(in this example the name provided in the SYNC request was translated from "Window Sensor" to "Sensore Finestra" when running in the context of an Italian linked account).
However I was not able to find the utterance for the QUERY request, I've tried everything that could make some sense, but the QUERY intent never gets triggered, and the assistant redirects me to a simple search on the web.
Why is there such a mistery over utterances? The sample English utterances in assistant docs are very limited, and most of the times it's difficult to guess their counterpart in specific languages; furthermore no one from AOG has ever been able to give me any piece of information on this topic.
It's been more than a year now for me, trying to create a reference guide for utterances to be included in our device user manual, but still with no luck.
Can any one of you point me to some reference?
Or is there anything wrong with my SYNC data?
You can file a bug on the public tracker and include the QUERYs you have attempted. Since the execution intents seem to work, it may just be a bug in the backend grammar that isn't triggering.

Graph API (Http Status : 412 Precondition Failed - ErrorIrresolvableConflict)

I am using Microsoft Graph to create Calendar Events using Application Credentials where the organizer's email id will be used:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<organizer_email_id>/calendar/events
Before the Create Event, I am issuing a PATCH to update the organizer's displayName, givenName and surname:
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{id}
I see the Event gets created, but it is sending the mail with old name and throwing the following error:
HTTP Status code : 412 Precondition Failed.
{
"error": {
"code": "ErrorIrresolvableConflict",
"message": "The send or update operation could not be performed because the change key passed in the request does not match the current change key for the item.",
"innerError": {
"request-id": "a36e60a4-0a18-4574-9f7f-75f6c1cce8b4",
"date": "2020-01-05T14:22:54"
}
}
}
It looks like the Event is reaching before the patch request is commited. I don't want to put any delay between two calls but the only option is before creating the event, fire a get request to confirm that name changed. Is there any other workaround or Microsoft needs to fix the bug if there is any?
It seems to be an old known issue of Exchange.
Usually such issues need to be confirmed by Microsoft engineers.
I believe the most effective way now is to contact the support team and attach your request-id for investigation.

How to update the users birthday

I want to update the birthday of a user using the patch request.
Updating other properties works as expected but the moment the birthday property is included, the following error returned:
The request is currently not supported on the targeted entity set
I already tried to update the user to be sure the permissions are fine.
Application permissions are used.
This PATCH request to /V1.0/users/{id} works:
{
"givenName": "Fridas"
}
Passing this request body however:
{
"givenName":"Fridas",
"birthday" : "2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
}
throws an error
{
"error":
{
"code":"BadRequest",
"message":"The request is currently not supported on the targeted entity set",
"innerError":
{
"request-id":"5f0d36d1-0bff-437b-9dc8-5579a7ec6e72",
"date":"2019-08-13T15:27:40"
}
}
}
When I update the birthday separately, I get a 500 error. Print screens below. Updating the user id works fine, birthday does not.
Same user id is used in the request.
I'm not sure why this happens, but a workaround, albeit an annoying one, is to update birthday separately from other attributes.
E.g.
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/userid
{
"birthday" : "2014-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
Here is a screenshot from MS Graph Explorer:
In fact, this is a limitation in the current system.
User is a composite type. Under the covers some properties in user are mastered by different services, and we currently don't support updates across multiple services.
"birthday" is not mastered by Azure AD. So we can't update it with other properties mastered by Azure AD in the same call.
It is strongly recommended that you update this property separately. I can update it from my side. So you need a backend engineer to track this request for you.
This seems to affect more than Birthday.
Skills[] and Responsibilities[] are also returning 500 Internal Server Error when using PATCH request via REST API with:
{"skills": ["TESTING", "ANOTHER SKILL"]}
Same happens via the GraphServiceClient - except the result is:
Failed to call the Web Api: InternalServerError
Content: {
"error": {"code": "-1, Microsoft.Office.Server.Directory.DirectoryObjectUnauthorizedAccessException",
"message": "Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.",
"innerError": {
"request-id": "1c2ccc54-0a0c-468f-a18c-6bdfbad4077d",
"date": "2019-08-28T13:23:55"
}}}
These requests work on the Graph Explorer page, but not via calls to the API.

Salesforce Tooling API - Deactivate Trigger

I am attempting to deactivate triggers using the tooling API. I have successfully in a developer ORG. But was unable to do this in a real developer org. Is this a Salesforce tooling api bug?
Here is the basis of the algorithm,
Create a MetadataContainer with a unique Name
save MetadataContainer
Create an ApexTriggerMember setting the Body, MetadataContainerId, ContentEntityId, and Metadata[apiVersion=33.0 packageVersions=[] status="Inactive" urls=nil>]
Modify Metadata["status"]="Inactive"
save ApexTriggerMember
Create/Save ContainerAsyncRequest
monitor container until completed.
display errors if appropriate
In the sandbox, I have confirmed after requerying the Apex enter code hereTriggerMember that the read-only field "Content" looks appropriate. I also confirmed that the MetadataContainerId now points to a ContainerAsyncRequest that has a State of "Completed"
Here are my results, it appears to be a success, but the ApexTrigger is never deactivated
ContentEntityId = 01q.............[The ApexTrigger I want deactivated]
Content="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<ApexTrigger xmlns=\"urn:metadata.tooling.soap.sforce.com\">
<apiVersion>33.0</apiVersion>
<status>Inactive</status>
</ApexTrigger>"
Metadata={apiVersion=33.0 packageVersions=nil status="Inactive" urls=nil> attributes= {type="ApexTriggerMember"
url="/services/data/v33.0/tooling/sobjects/ ApexTriggerMember/401L0000000DCI8IAO"
}
}
I think you need to deploy the inactive Trigger from Sandbox to Production. You can't simply deactivate the Trigger in Production. This is true even in the UI.
There are other options, such as using a Custom Setting or Metadata Type to store a Run/Don't Run value. You would query that value in the Trigger to decide whether or not to run it.
https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=906F0000000MJM9IAO

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