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Revision: 11356
at February 3, 2009 00:24 by hansamann
Initial Code 
import net.fortuna.ical4j.util.Calendars
import net.fortuna.ical4j.model.component.VEvent
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat


    def url = 'http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/jds6o8imt8qgtepchsmr72jhf4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics'.toURL()
    def cal = Calendars.load(url)

    def dayFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEEEEEE, MMMMMMMM dd'th' yyyy", Locale.US)
    def timeFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat('HH:mm', Locale.US)

    def dates = []
    def now = new Date() 
    log.debug("Total components in iCal file: ${cal.components.size()}" )

    cal.components.findAll {it.startDate.date.time > now.time }.sort { it.startDate.date }.each
    {
      if (!it instanceof VEvent)
      {
        log.warn("Found event of class ${it.getClass()}, skipping!")
        return;
      }

      def startDate = dayFormatter.format(it.startDate.date)
      def startTime = timeFormatter.format(it.startDate.date)

      def eventMap = [
              startDate : startDate,
              startTime : startTime,
              location : (it.location.value) ? it.location.value : 'No Location',
              summary : it.summary.value,
              description : it.description.value
      ]

      dates << eventMap
Initial URL 
http://grailspodcast.com
Initial Description 
Thanx to Guillaume Laforge, who provided this code snippet of Groovy code in a GSP. The snippet below is more or less the same, less the HTML. It will show all future evens and create a eventMap for each event.
Initial Title 
Parse Events from iCal URL or File (e.g. Google Calendar)
Initial Tags 
groovy
Initial Language 
Groovy