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B.3. Example: "Attendee" Replying to an Invitation

In the following example, Wilfredo accepts Cyrus's invitation and sets an alarm reminder on the event. It uses the If-Schedule-Tag- Match precondition behavior to ensure it does not overwrite any significant changes from the "Organizer" that might have occurred after it retrieved the initial resource data.

>> Request <<

PUT /home/wilfredo/calendars/work/BB64861C2228.ics HTTP/1.1 Host: cal.example.com If-Schedule-Tag-Match: "e78f23ed-0188-4bab-938d-2aeb3324c7e8" Content-Type: text/calendar; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:9263504FD3AD
SEQUENCE:0
DTSTAMP:20090602T185254Z
DTSTART:20090602T160000Z
DTEND:20090602T170000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SUMMARY:Lunch
ORGANIZER;CN="Cyrus Daboo":mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CN="Cyrus Daboo";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:
 mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CN="Wilfredo Sanchez Vega";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT
 =ACCEPTED;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:wilfredo@exam
 ple.com
ATTENDEE;CN="Bernard Desruisseaux";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=
 NEEDS-ACTION;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:bernard@ex
 ample.net
ATTENDEE;CN="Mike Douglass";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-A
 CTION;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:mike@example.org
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

>> Response <<

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 0 Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:57:54 GMT Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:57:54 GMT ETag: "eb4639451b434fbd85561cfe74a4e785" Schedule-Tag: "8893ee45-eb9d-428f-b53c-c777daf19e41"

Once the event modification has been completed, Wilfredo's client will retrieve the event back from the server to get the schedule status of the "Organizer".

>> Request <<

GET /home/wilfredo/calendars/work/BB64861C2228.ics HTTP/1.1 Host: cal.example.com

>> Response <<

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:03:03 GMT Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:02:21 GMT ETag: "5eb897deabda116714bc9926c8939589" Schedule-Tag: "8893ee45-eb9d-428f-b53c-c777daf19e41" Content-Type: text/calendar; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:9263504FD3AD
SEQUENCE:0
DTSTAMP:20090602T190221Z
DTSTART:20090602T160000Z
DTEND:20090602T170000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SUMMARY:Lunch
ORGANIZER;CN="Cyrus Daboo";SCHEDULE-STATUS=1.2:mailto:cyrus@ex
 ample.com
ATTENDEE;CN="Cyrus Daboo";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:
 mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CN="Wilfredo Sanchez Vega";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT
 =ACCEPTED;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:wilfredo@exam
 ple.com
ATTENDEE;CN="Bernard Desruisseaux";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=
 NEEDS-ACTION;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:bernard@ex
 ample.net
ATTENDEE;CN="Mike Douglass";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-A
 CTION;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:mike@example.org
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

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