Re: Standalone Lightning for webapps?

On 27.01.2016 14:40, CC wrote:
> Just a sanity check before I spend too much time on this.
>
> I need to write some standalone code on a (Linux) web server that
> serves calendar data to browsers via Ajax. It should return either
> HTML or Javascript to the browser, so that the browser can display a
> month view (just like a Lightning month view).
>
> This code will probably need to get ics data from a shared calendar
> server (probably Calendar (calendarserver.org) on the same box)
> before returning it to the browser, but a simpler back-end
> (SQLite/whatever) would probably be Ok.

The open source SOGo groupware server implements a web calendar 
interface that looks like Lightning: 
http://www.sogo.nu/tour/screenshots.html

> How difficult would it be to re-use the Lightning source code to do
> this? So, basically, I want to chop out the Thunderbird integration
> and the GUI and replace it with Ajax/HTML/Javascript. I can write
> C++/Javascript/etc, so the hacking is Ok, but I'd just like to
> confirm that the Lighning is structured in such a way that this is
> possible and there's something useful left after I've removed the
> Thunderbird bits. Or has anyone already done this?

Ok, so you are looking for a library to parse ics data? Currently 
Lightning uses the libical library written in C for this task. A 
replacement written in JavaScript is in development and available for 
testing in Lightning trunk nightly builds.

https://github.com/libical/libical
https://github.com/mozilla-comm/ical.js/

The Lightning UI is written in XUL and therefore requires a Mozilla 
based application. Maybe this will change in the future when Mozilla 
drops support for XUL.

/Stefan