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ID	CS001244	Creation date	December 18, 2008
Platform	S60 5th Edition	Tested on devices	Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Category	Web Runtime (WRT)	Subcategory	PIM

Keywords (APIs, classes, methods, functions): device.getServiceObject(), Service.Calendar.GetList()

Overview

This code snippet shows how to list calendar entries by using the Calendar Platform Service for S60 Web Runtime introduced in S60 5th Edition.

The device.getServiceObject("Service.Calendar", "IDataSource") method is used to obtain access to the service object for the Calendar Service API.

Source: Relevant HTML components

<input type="radio" name="eventType" id="meeting" checked
    onclick="showEntries();">
<label for="meeting">Meetings</label><br />
 
<input type="radio" name="eventType" id="anniversary"
    onclick="showEntries();">
<label for="anniversary">Anniversaries</label><br />
 
<input type="radio" name="eventType" id="dayEvent"
    onclick="showEntries();">
<label for="dayEvent">Day Events</label><br />
 
<input type="radio" name="eventType" id="reminder"
    onclick="showEntries();">
<label for="reminder">Reminders</label><br />
 
<input type="radio" name="eventType" id="toDo"
    onclick="showEntries();">
<label for="toDo">ToDos</label><br />
 
<label for="entriesList">Entries:</label><br />
<select size="2" id="entriesList"></select><br />

Source: JavaScript file

var serviceObj = null;
 
window.onload = init;
 
// Initializes the widget
function init() {
    // Obtain the service object
    try {
        serviceObj = device.getServiceObject("Service.Calendar",
            "IDataSource");
    } catch (ex) {
        alert("Service object cannot be found.");
        return;
    }
}
 
function showEntries() {
    var criteria = new Object();
    var filter = new Object();
    if (document.getElementById("meeting").checked) {
        filter.Type = "Meeting";                
    } else if (document.getElementById("anniversary").checked) {
        filter.Type = "Anniversary";
    } else if (document.getElementById("dayEvent").checked) {
        filter.Type = "DayEvent";
    } else if (document.getElementById("reminder").checked) {
        filter.Type = "Reminder";
    } else if (document.getElementById("toDo").checked) {
        filter.Type = "ToDo";
    }                        
    criteria.Filter = filter;
    criteria.Type = "CalendarEntry";
 
    // Get the list of entries
    try {
        var result = serviceObj.IDataSource.GetList(criteria);
        if (result.ErrorCode == 0) {
            displayEntries(result.ReturnValue);
        } else {
            alert("Error in getting calendar entries.");
        }
    } catch(exception) {
        alert("Error in getting calendar entries: " + result.ErrorMessage);
    }
}
 
function displayEntries(iterator) {
    var entriesList = document.getElementById("entriesList");
 
    // Empty the entries list
    while (entriesList.length != 0) {
        entriesList.remove(0);
    }
 
    // Set the pointer to the first element
    iterator.reset();
 
    var item;
    while ((item = iterator.getNext()) != undefined) {
        var msg = "";
        msg = msg + "Type: " + item['Type'];
        msg = msg + "Summary: " + item['Summary'];
        // The commented code shows available fields that can be retrieved
        //msg = msg + "StartTime: " + item['StartTime'];
        //msg = msg + "EndTime: " + item['EndTime'];
        //msg = msg + "Id: " + item['Id'];
        //msg = msg + "LocalId: " + item['LocalId'];
        var node = document.createElement("option");
        node.value = item['LocalId'];
        node.appendChild(document.createTextNode(msg));
        entriesList.appendChild(node);
    }    
}

Postconditions

Available calendar entries are displayed.

Supplementary material

You can view the source file and executable application in the attached ZIP archive. The archive is available for download at Media:Listing_calendars_and_events_in_WRT.zip.

See also

CS001278 - Listing calendars in WRT