EventGuest.getGuestStatus(true) never returns "Owner"

[Nicholas Cacia]

I'm having an issue where I cannot get EventGuest.getGuestStatus(true) to ever show me who the "Owner" of an event is. 

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/calendar/event-guest#getGuestStatus()

Each time I call this, I see "Yes" for the person who is the owner of the event.

As a quick example:

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function testingGuestStatus() {
   var event = CalendarApp.getEventById('someRandomEventIdHere');
   var guestList = event.getGuestList(true);

  for (var i = 0; i <= guestList.length; i++){
    var guest = guestList[i].getEmail();
    var status = guestList[i].getGuestStatus().toString();
   
    Logger.log(guest + ' ' + status);
  }

}

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This will always log "YES", "NO", or "INVITED" as far as I have seen, but never "OWNER" despite what the documentation states:

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/calendar/guest-status

Am I doing something wrong, or is the API not working correctly?

Thanks!

[Martin Hawksey]

Hi Nicholas,

From the limited testing I've done it looks like a limitation of GuestStatus is if the owner accepts then you get YES rather than OWNER.

A workaround could be to get the guest list with and without the owner and compare the two e.g.:

function testingGuestStatus() {

  var event = CalendarApp.getEventById('someRandomEventIdHere');

  var guestList = event.getGuestList(true);

  var guestListWithoutOwner = event.getGuestList(); // get the guest list without the owner

  // filter the guest list to ignore duplicate emails leaving only the owner

  // based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/42995029/1027723

  let owner = guestList.filter(o1 => !guestListWithoutOwner.some(o2 => o1.getEmail() === o2.getEmail()));

  Logger.log('The owner is: ' + owner[0].getEmail());

  // Old code

  for (var i = 0; i < guestList.length; i++){

    var guest = guestList[i].getEmail() ? guestList[i].getEmail() : null;

} 

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[Nicholas Cacia]

Thanks Martin!  I like the workaround idea and will probably implement it that way for now. 

Seems like a pretty odd limitation - as I imagine MOST event Owners will automatically Accept the events that they create.    

Appreciate the quick advice!

[Martin Hawksey]

Hi Nicholas - your Q was so interesting I had to dig a little further and you may prefer using the Calendar Advanced Service

  const event = Calendar.Events.get(CalendarApp.getDefaultCalendar().getId(), 'someRandomEventIdHere');

  Logger.log('The owner is: ' + event.organizer.email); 

Some more info here  https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2022/04/getting-a-google-calendar-event-owner-using-google-apps-script/

Best

Martin