updateEvent should support event ID changes

removeEvents("string") leads to this callback:

            filter = function(event) {
                return event._id == eventID;
            };

Some of my events are from “external events” (dropped jQ widgets). eventReceive looks like:

    eventReceive: function(ev) {
                   (...)
                    var uidlen=10;
                    ev.id = 'client_' + (Math.random().toString(36)+'00000000000000000').slice(2, uidlen+2);
                    (...)
                    calendar.updateEvent(ev);
   }

For those client events, id is as expected, but _id contains strings like _fc6.

Not sure the right path,

• Should updateEvent update _id to match?
• Should removeEvents match against id?
• Should the docs recommend saying removeEvents(ev._id) ?

[arshaw]

._id is supposed to be the internally-used trusted value of the ID. the problem here is that updateEvent is not updating this internal value when the publicly knowable .id is changed.

I will repurpose this ticket to be about improving updateEvent to accept id changes.

In the meantime, I’m pretty sure passing in an id to the input event data for the draggable (described here), essentially making sure the ID is set earlier in the process and avoiding updateEvent altogether, should work.

[arshaw]

Released in v3.5.0 (blog post)