icalendar.prop.dt.date module

DATE property type from RFC 5545.

class icalendar.prop.dt.date.vDate(dt, params=None)

Bases: TimeBase

Date

Value Name:

DATE

Purpose:

This value type is used to identify values that contain a calendar date.

Format Definition:

This value type is defined by the following notation:

date               = date-value

date-value         = date-fullyear date-month date-mday
date-fullyear      = 4DIGIT
date-month         = 2DIGIT        ;01-12
date-mday          = 2DIGIT        ;01-28, 01-29, 01-30, 01-31
                                   ;based on month/year

Description:

If the property permits, multiple "date" values are specified as a COMMA-separated list of values. The format for the value type is based on the [ISO.8601.2004] complete representation, basic format for a calendar date. The textual format specifies a four-digit year, two-digit month, and two-digit day of the month. There are no separator characters between the year, month, and day component text.

Example

The following represents July 14, 1997:

19970714

>>> from icalendar.prop import vDate
>>> date = vDate.from_ical('19970714')
>>> date.year
1997
>>> date.month
7
>>> date.day
14

property VALUE: str

The VALUE parameter or the default.

Purpose:

VALUE explicitly specify the value type format for a property value.

Description:

This parameter specifies the value type and format of the property value. The property values MUST be of a single value type. For example, a "RDATE" property cannot have a combination of DATE-TIME and TIME value types.

If the property's value is the default value type, then this parameter need not be specified. However, if the property's default value type is overridden by some other allowable value type, then this parameter MUST be specified.

Applications MUST preserve the value data for x-name and iana-token values that they don't recognize without attempting to interpret or parse the value data.

Returns:

The VALUE parameter or the default.

Examples

The VALUE defaults to the name of the property. Note that it is case-insensitive but always uppercase.

>>> from icalendar import vBoolean
>>> b = vBoolean(True)
>>> b.VALUE
'BOOLEAN'

Setting the VALUE parameter of a typed property usually does not make sense. For convenience, using this property, the value will be converted to an uppercase string. If you have some custom property, you might use it like this:

>>> from icalendar import vUnknown, Event
>>> v = vUnknown("Some property text.")
>>> v.VALUE = "x-type"  # lower case
>>> v.VALUE
'X-TYPE'
>>> event = Event()
>>> event.add("x-prop", v)
>>> print(event.to_ical())
BEGIN:VEVENT
X-PROP;VALUE=X-TYPE:Some property text.
END:VEVENT

default_value: ClassVar[str] = 'DATE'

classmethod examples()

Examples of vDate.

Return type:

list[None]

static from_ical(ical)

classmethod from_jcal(jcal_property)

Parse jCal from RFC 7265.

Parameters:

jcal_property (list) – The jCal property to parse.

Raises:

JCalParsingError – If the provided jCal is invalid.

Return type:

None

params: Parameters

classmethod parse_jcal_value(jcal)

Parse a jCal string to a datetime.date.

Raises:

JCalParsingError – If it can't parse a date.

Return type:

date

to_ical()

to_jcal(name)

The jCal representation of this property according to RFC 7265.

Return type:

list