[Cosmo-dev] new eim record type for event overrides

[Morgen Sagen]

On Jan 9, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Randy Letness wrote:

> Currently, there is a single event record type that is used to  
> represent master events and override events.  Override events are  
> represented by a non-null "RecurrenceId" attribute.  This means  
> that the primary key for event records is really the event uuid and  
> the recurrenceId.  This is a problem for master events, because  
> they have a null recurrenceId.  Also, override events will never  
> use rdate, exdate, rrule, exrule.
>
> After talking to Brian, he proposed having a separated record type  
> to represent override events.  This new "override" record type  
> would have two key fields, uuid and recurrenceId, and the current  
> event recordtype would no longer need the recurrenceId attribute.   
> So things look like:
>
> <event:record xmlns:event="http://osafoundation.org/eim/event">
>      <event:uuid eim:type="text" eim:key="true"><![CDATA[e55b5f1c- 
> a20d-4d47-acda-c43049967281]]></event:uuid>
>      <event:dtstart eim:type="text"><![CDATA[20061220T090000]]></ 
> event:dtstart>
>      <event:dtend eim:type="text"><![CDATA[20061220T100000]]></ 
> event:dtend>
>      <event:location eim:type="text"><![CDATA[]]></event:location>
>      <event:rrule eim:type="text" />
>      <event:exrule eim:type="text" />
>      <event:rdate eim:type="text" />
>      <event:exdate eim:type="text" />
>      <event:status eim:type="text" />
> </event:record>
>
> <eventOverride:record xmlns:event="http://osafoundation.org/eim/ 
> eventOverride">
>      <eventOverride:uuid eim:type="text" eim:key="true"><![CDATA 
> [e55b5f1c-a20d-4d47-acda-c43049967281]]></eventOverride:uuid>
>      <eventOverride:recurrenceId eim:type="text" eim:key="true"><! 
> [CDATA[20061220T090000]]></eventOverride:recurrenceId>
>      <eventOverride:dtstart eim:type="text"><![CDATA 
> [20061220T090000]]></eventOverride:dtstart>
>      <eventOverride:dtend eim:type="text"><![CDATA[20061220T100000]] 
> ></eventOverride:dtend>
>      <eventOverride:location eim:type="text"><![CDATA[]]></ 
> eventOverride:location>
>      <eventOverride:status eim:type="text" />
> </eventOverride:record>
>
> Does this make sense?  Comments, suggestions, concerns?
>
> -Randy

A clarification: do eventOverride (actually, Chandler calls these  
Modifications) records live in the same recordset as the master  
event, or are they considered separate items?