Creating Recurring events on Google Calendar via API

Question

I'm unable to create Recurring events using the google calendar API's. I'm able to create singular events, but if I add a "recurrence" rule into the recurrence property, I get an error message saying "The operation couldn’t be completed. (Invalid Value)" (timezone.name = America/New_York)

I'm using the below code to create the event object, If the condition is false, the event gets created on the google calendar My question is, how does one create an Recurring event using Google Calendar API? Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong below?

Thanks in advance for the help.

let gEvent = GTLCalendarEvent()
    let timeZone = NSTimeZone.systemTimeZone()

    let startTime = NSDate.dateFromString("2016-10-18 21:31:00 +0000")
    let endTime = NSDate.dateFromString("2016-10-18 22:31:00 +0000")

    let start = GTLCalendarEventDateTime()
    let end = GTLCalendarEventDateTime()

    if event.EventRepeat.toBool() == true {
        end.dateTime = GTLDateTime(date:endTime, timeZone: nil)
        start.dateTime =  GTLDateTime(date:startTime, timeZone: nil)
        start.timeZone = timeZone.name
        end.timeZone = timeZone.name
        gEvent.recurrence = ["FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=SU,MO,TU,WE,TH,FR,SA;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20171031T040000Z"]

    }else{
        end.dateTime = GTLDateTime(date:endTime, timeZone: timeZone)
        start.dateTime =  GTLDateTime(date:startTime, timeZone: timeZone)
    }

    gEvent.start = start
    gEvent.end = end
    gEvent.summary = "Example Event"
    gEvent.descriptionProperty = "Example Event Description"

    return gEvent

user732029 user732029 · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-18T23:02:51

Had the wrong RRule setup. Solved it! Here's a template

RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20190628;BYDAY=SU,MO

Creating Recurring events on Google Calendar via API

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