Create a calendar event using Sakai API

[Anh Trinh]

Hi,

My team is developing an LTI tool for Sakai. We were able to retrieve the list of members by reading the source code for the BasicLTI Servlet (located at `basiclti/basclti-blis/src/java/org/sakaiproject/blti/ServiceServlet.java`).

Our next step is to create a calendar event on behalf of the currently logged in user. Here is where we got completely stuck. 

Any lead would be very helpful, thank you!

[Anh Trinh]

Hi Sakai-Devs,

We could get an OAuth1 access token for a user (via oAuth Admin tool) and this token does have the `calendar.new` right, but we still don't know how to go from here. Is it even possible to create a calendar event by calling Sakai API?

Thanks,

Anh

[Matthew Buckett]

On 30 Jul 2018, at 03:44, Anh Trinh <anh....@stanyangroup.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sakai-Devs,
>
> We could get an OAuth1 access token for a user (via oAuth Admin tool) and this token does have the `calendar.new` right, but we still don't know how to go from here. Is it even possible to create a calendar event by calling Sakai API?

On the latest Sakai code (master) it doesn’t look like the standard /direct endpoints support it:

https://trunk-mysql.nightly.sakaiproject.org/direct/calendar/describe

as there’s no create entity support and I don’t think the web services have support for creating calendar events.
Adding support to org.sakaiproject.calendar.entityproviders.CalendarEventEntityProvider so that is can create simple events would be reasonably easy.

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[Anh Trinh]

Thanks Matthew, much appreciated!

[Laura Gekeler]

Ahn,

Are you using tsugi as your development platform?

https://github.com/tsugiproject/tsugi ?

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[Anh Trinh]

Hi Igekeler, 

No we are not using Tsugi. Our LTI tool is written on Rails.

Do you mean we can get access to the creating calendar events feature if we use Tsugi? That would be strange but I'm open to ideas.

[Laura Gekeler]

No, sorry, I didn't mean to imply Tsugi would help with that. A new webservice/API for Sakai would likely be needed. At least that's what I understood Matthew Buckett to be saying.

Laura Gekeler
LMS Administrator

Learning Platforms

Apereo Foundation Board '14-2020

University of Notre Dame

Sakai_Te...@nd.edu