Handling reminder events in Google calendar

Question

I am performing calendar sync between my google and my web application.

Consider that the event is available in both the applications.

Now I am updating any field in my web application and performing a sync.

The reminder attribute is not a required tag for post request,but I am unable to set update the event without sending the reminder tag.

Now help me to retain the existing value of the Google remainder in Google Calendar

if I set usedefault : true the calendar's default remainder time is set If I set the tag setRemainder to null or empty the reminder in removed.

My question is how to retain the existing reminder value

Answer 1

You have a couple of options here. First before preforming an Event.update do an Event.Get this will return an EventResource which you can then edit and post back as your Event.Update.

This is a second option is to use events.patch which will preform a partal update on your event. You only need to send the fields you want to update it doesn't update anything you dont send. More info here

Useless tip: A patch can also be done with the update using the fields parameter, but its a pain.