[Cosmo-dev] Changing Master Event Start Date

[Bobby Rullo]

On Jun 12, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 6/12/07, Bobby Rullo <br at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> I propose that when updating an item over atom we pass some sort of
>> query parameter (or header, or whatever) like
>> "updateModificationRids=true" or something which lets the server know
>> that it should go and update the recurrenceIds of the modification
>> items associated with the item (if there are any.)
>
> is there ever an instance where you would change the start date of a
> master and *not* delete and re-add the modifications? if not, then no
> query parameter is required.
>

The only instance I was imagining was other (right now imaginary)  
clients who don't expect such behavior.

>> While it may be true that this is not a common use case, I still
>> think this is something that makes sense to do on the server, which
>> has access to all the data.
>
> after thinking about it more, i agree with you.

Yay!

>
>> It's also easier to code on the server -
>> I'm willing to do the work if Brian doesn't have the bandwidth for
>> it.
>
> i have plenty of bandwidth - more than any of the rest of you, it
> appears. my objection was not on the grounds that i didn't have time
> to write the code but rather that i thought it was the wrong thing to
> do. i've now withdrawn that objection and will write the code.

Awesome!