File: frigcal-products/2.0/unzipped/icalendar/prop.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """This module contains the parser/generators (or coders/encoders if you prefer) for the classes/datatypes that are used in iCalendar: ########################################################################### # This module defines these property value data types and property parameters 4.2 Defined property parameters are: ALTREP, CN, CUTYPE, DELEGATED-FROM, DELEGATED-TO, DIR, ENCODING, FMTTYPE, FBTYPE, LANGUAGE, MEMBER, PARTSTAT, RANGE, RELATED, RELTYPE, ROLE, RSVP, SENT-BY, TZID, VALUE 4.3 Defined value data types are: BINARY, BOOLEAN, CAL-ADDRESS, DATE, DATE-TIME, DURATION, FLOAT, INTEGER, PERIOD, RECUR, TEXT, TIME, URI, UTC-OFFSET ########################################################################### iCalendar properties has values. The values are strongly typed. This module defines these types, calling val.to_ical() on them, Will render them as defined in rfc2445. If you pass any of these classes a Python primitive, you will have an object that can render itself as iCalendar formatted date. Property Value Data Types starts with a 'v'. they all have an to_ical() and from_ical() method. The to_ical() method generates a text string in the iCalendar format. The from_ical() method can parse this format and return a primitive Python datatype. So it should allways be true that: x == vDataType.from_ical(VDataType(x).to_ical()) These types are mainly used for parsing and file generation. But you can set them directly. """ from datetime import date from datetime import datetime from datetime import time from datetime import timedelta from datetime import tzinfo try: from dateutil.tz import tzutc except ImportError: tzutc = None from icalendar import compat from icalendar.caselessdict import CaselessDict from icalendar.parser import Parameters from icalendar.parser import escape_char from icalendar.parser import tzid_from_dt from icalendar.parser import unescape_char from icalendar.parser_tools import DEFAULT_ENCODING from icalendar.parser_tools import SEQUENCE_TYPES from icalendar.parser_tools import to_unicode import base64 import binascii import pytz import re import time as _time DATE_PART = r'(\d+)D' TIME_PART = r'T(?:(\d+)H)?(?:(\d+)M)?(?:(\d+)S)?' DATETIME_PART = '(?:%s)?(?:%s)?' % (DATE_PART, TIME_PART) WEEKS_PART = r'(\d+)W' DURATION_REGEX = re.compile(r'([-+]?)P(?:%s|%s)$' % (WEEKS_PART, DATETIME_PART)) WEEKDAY_RULE = re.compile('(?P<signal>[+-]?)(?P<relative>[\d]?)' '(?P<weekday>[\w]{2})$') #################################################### # handy tzinfo classes you can use. # ZERO = timedelta(0) HOUR = timedelta(hours=1) STDOFFSET = timedelta(seconds=-_time.timezone) if _time.daylight: DSTOFFSET = timedelta(seconds=-_time.altzone) else: DSTOFFSET = STDOFFSET DSTDIFF = DSTOFFSET - STDOFFSET class FixedOffset(tzinfo): """Fixed offset in minutes east from UTC. """ def __init__(self, offset, name): self.__offset = timedelta(minutes=offset) self.__name = name def utcoffset(self, dt): return self.__offset def tzname(self, dt): return self.__name def dst(self, dt): return ZERO class LocalTimezone(tzinfo): """Timezone of the machine where the code is running. """ def utcoffset(self, dt): if self._isdst(dt): return DSTOFFSET else: return STDOFFSET def dst(self, dt): if self._isdst(dt): return DSTDIFF else: return ZERO def tzname(self, dt): return _time.tzname[self._isdst(dt)] def _isdst(self, dt): tt = (dt.year, dt.month, dt.day, dt.hour, dt.minute, dt.second, dt.weekday(), 0, -1) stamp = _time.mktime(tt) tt = _time.localtime(stamp) return tt.tm_isdst > 0 class vBinary(object): """Binary property values are base 64 encoded. """ def __init__(self, obj): self.obj = to_unicode(obj) self.params = Parameters(encoding='BASE64', value="BINARY") def __repr__(self): return "vBinary('%s')" % self.to_ical() def to_ical(self): return binascii.b2a_base64(self.obj.encode('utf-8'))[:-1] @staticmethod def from_ical(ical): try: return base64.b64decode(ical) except UnicodeError: raise ValueError('Not valid base 64 encoding.') class vBoolean(int): """Returns specific string according to state. """ BOOL_MAP = CaselessDict({'true': True, 'false': False}) def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs): self = super(vBoolean, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs) self.params = Parameters() return self def to_ical(self): if self: return b'TRUE' return b'FALSE' @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): try: return cls.BOOL_MAP[ical] except: raise ValueError("Expected 'TRUE' or 'FALSE'. Got %s" % ical) class vCalAddress(compat.unicode_type): """This just returns an unquoted string. """ def __new__(cls, value, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING): value = to_unicode(value, encoding=encoding) self = super(vCalAddress, cls).__new__(cls, value) self.params = Parameters() return self def __repr__(self): return "vCalAddress('%s')" % self.to_ical() def to_ical(self): return self.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING) @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): return cls(ical) class vFloat(float): """Just a float. """ def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs): self = super(vFloat, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs) self.params = Parameters() return self def to_ical(self): return compat.unicode_type(self).encode('utf-8') @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): try: return cls(ical) except: raise ValueError('Expected float value, got: %s' % ical) class vInt(int): """Just an int. """ def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs): self = super(vInt, cls).__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs) self.params = Parameters() return self def to_ical(self): return compat.unicode_type(self).encode('utf-8') @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): try: return cls(ical) except: raise ValueError('Expected int, got: %s' % ical) class vDDDLists(object): """A list of vDDDTypes values. """ def __init__(self, dt_list): if not hasattr(dt_list, '__iter__'): dt_list = [dt_list] vDDD = [] tzid = None for dt in dt_list: dt = vDDDTypes(dt) vDDD.append(dt) if 'TZID' in dt.params: tzid = dt.params['TZID'] if tzid: # NOTE: no support for multiple timezones here! self.params = Parameters({'TZID': tzid}) self.dts = vDDD def to_ical(self): dts_ical = (dt.to_ical() for dt in self.dts) return b",".join(dts_ical) @staticmethod def from_ical(ical, timezone=None): out = [] ical_dates = ical.split(",") for ical_dt in ical_dates: out.append(vDDDTypes.from_ical(ical_dt, timezone=timezone)) return out class vDDDTypes(object): """A combined Datetime, Date or Duration parser/generator. Their format cannot be confused, and often values can be of either types. So this is practical. """ def __init__(self, dt): if not isinstance(dt, (datetime, date, timedelta, time)): raise ValueError('You must use datetime, date, timedelta or time') if isinstance(dt, datetime): self.params = Parameters(dict(value='DATE-TIME')) elif isinstance(dt, date): self.params = Parameters(dict(value='DATE')) elif isinstance(dt, time): self.params = Parameters(dict(value='TIME')) if (isinstance(dt, datetime) or isinstance(dt, time))\ and getattr(dt, 'tzinfo', False): tzinfo = dt.tzinfo if tzinfo is not pytz.utc and\ (tzutc is None or not isinstance(tzinfo, tzutc)): # set the timezone as a parameter to the property tzid = tzid_from_dt(dt) if tzid: self.params.update({'TZID': tzid}) self.dt = dt def to_ical(self): dt = self.dt if isinstance(dt, datetime): return vDatetime(dt).to_ical() elif isinstance(dt, date): return vDate(dt).to_ical() elif isinstance(dt, timedelta): return vDuration(dt).to_ical() elif isinstance(dt, time): return vTime(dt).to_ical() else: raise ValueError('Unknown date type') @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical, timezone=None): if isinstance(ical, cls): return ical.dt u = ical.upper() if u.startswith('-P') or u.startswith('P'): return vDuration.from_ical(ical) try: return vDatetime.from_ical(ical, timezone=timezone) except ValueError: try: return vDate.from_ical(ical) except ValueError: return vTime.from_ical(ical) class vDate(object): """Render and generates iCalendar date format. """ def __init__(self, dt): if not isinstance(dt, date): raise ValueError('Value MUST be a date instance') self.dt = dt self.params = Parameters(dict(value='DATE')) def to_ical(self): s = "%04d%02d%02d" % (self.dt.year, self.dt.month, self.dt.day) return s.encode('utf-8') @staticmethod def from_ical(ical): try: timetuple = ( int(ical[:4]), # year int(ical[4:6]), # month int(ical[6:8]), # day ) return date(*timetuple) except: raise ValueError('Wrong date format %s' % ical) class vDatetime(object): """Render and generates icalendar datetime format. vDatetime is timezone aware and uses the pytz library, an implementation of the Olson database in Python. When a vDatetime object is created from an ical string, you can pass a valid pytz timezone identifier. When a vDatetime object is created from a python datetime object, it uses the tzinfo component, if present. Otherwise an timezone-naive object is created. Be aware that there are certain limitations with timezone naive DATE-TIME components in the icalendar standard. """ def __init__(self, dt): self.dt = dt self.params = Parameters() def to_ical(self): dt = self.dt tzid = tzid_from_dt(dt) s = "%04d%02d%02dT%02d%02d%02d" % ( dt.year, dt.month, dt.day, dt.hour, dt.minute, dt.second ) if tzid == 'UTC': s += "Z" elif tzid: self.params.update({'TZID': tzid}) return s.encode('utf-8') @staticmethod def from_ical(ical, timezone=None): tzinfo = None if timezone: try: tzinfo = pytz.timezone(timezone) except pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError: pass try: timetuple = ( int(ical[:4]), # year int(ical[4:6]), # month int(ical[6:8]), # day int(ical[9:11]), # hour int(ical[11:13]), # minute int(ical[13:15]), # second ) if tzinfo: return tzinfo.localize(datetime(*timetuple)) elif not ical[15:]: return datetime(*timetuple) elif ical[15:16] == 'Z': return pytz.utc.localize(datetime(*timetuple)) else: raise ValueError(ical) except: raise ValueError('Wrong datetime format: %s' % ical) class vDuration(object): """Subclass of timedelta that renders itself in the iCalendar DURATION format. """ def __init__(self, td): if not isinstance(td, timedelta): raise ValueError('Value MUST be a timedelta instance') self.td = td self.params = Parameters() def to_ical(self): sign = "" if self.td.days < 0: sign = "-" self.td = -self.td timepart = "" if self.td.seconds: timepart = "T" hours = self.td.seconds // 3600 minutes = self.td.seconds % 3600 // 60 seconds = self.td.seconds % 60 if hours: timepart += "%dH" % hours if minutes or (hours and seconds): timepart += "%dM" % minutes if seconds: timepart += "%dS" % seconds if self.td.days == 0 and timepart: return (compat.unicode_type(sign).encode('utf-8') + b'P' + compat.unicode_type(timepart).encode('utf-8')) else: return (compat.unicode_type(sign).encode('utf-8') + b'P' + compat.unicode_type(abs(self.td.days)).encode('utf-8') + b'D' + compat.unicode_type(timepart).encode('utf-8')) @staticmethod def from_ical(ical): try: match = DURATION_REGEX.match(ical) sign, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds = match.groups() if weeks: value = timedelta(weeks=int(weeks)) else: value = timedelta(days=int(days or 0), hours=int(hours or 0), minutes=int(minutes or 0), seconds=int(seconds or 0)) if sign == '-': value = -value return value except: raise ValueError('Invalid iCalendar duration: %s' % ical) class vPeriod(object): """A precise period of time. """ def __init__(self, per): start, end_or_duration = per if not (isinstance(start, datetime) or isinstance(start, date)): raise ValueError('Start value MUST be a datetime or date instance') if not (isinstance(end_or_duration, datetime) or isinstance(end_or_duration, date) or isinstance(end_or_duration, timedelta)): raise ValueError('end_or_duration MUST be a datetime, ' 'date or timedelta instance') by_duration = 0 if isinstance(end_or_duration, timedelta): by_duration = 1 duration = end_or_duration end = start + duration else: end = end_or_duration duration = end - start if start > end: raise ValueError("Start time is greater than end time") self.params = Parameters() # set the timezone identifier # does not support different timezones for start and end tzid = tzid_from_dt(start) if tzid: self.params['TZID'] = tzid self.start = start self.end = end self.by_duration = by_duration self.duration = duration def __cmp__(self, other): if not isinstance(other, vPeriod): raise NotImplementedError('Cannot compare vPeriod with %r' % other) return cmp((self.start, self.end), (other.start, other.end)) def overlaps(self, other): if self.start > other.start: return other.overlaps(self) if self.start <= other.start < self.end: return True return False def to_ical(self): if self.by_duration: return (vDatetime(self.start).to_ical() + b'/' + vDuration(self.duration).to_ical()) return (vDatetime(self.start).to_ical() + b'/' + vDatetime(self.end).to_ical()) @staticmethod def from_ical(ical): try: start, end_or_duration = ical.split('/') start = vDDDTypes.from_ical(start) end_or_duration = vDDDTypes.from_ical(end_or_duration) return (start, end_or_duration) except: raise ValueError('Expected period format, got: %s' % ical) def __repr__(self): if self.by_duration: p = (self.start, self.duration) else: p = (self.start, self.end) return 'vPeriod(%r)' % p class vWeekday(compat.unicode_type): """This returns an unquoted weekday abbrevation. """ week_days = CaselessDict({ "SU": 0, "MO": 1, "TU": 2, "WE": 3, "TH": 4, "FR": 5, "SA": 6, }) def __new__(cls, value, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING): value = to_unicode(value, encoding=encoding) self = super(vWeekday, cls).__new__(cls, value) match = WEEKDAY_RULE.match(self) if match is None: raise ValueError('Expected weekday abbrevation, got: %s' % self) match = match.groupdict() sign = match['signal'] weekday = match['weekday'] relative = match['relative'] if not weekday in vWeekday.week_days or sign not in '+-': raise ValueError('Expected weekday abbrevation, got: %s' % self) self.relative = relative and int(relative) or None self.params = Parameters() return self def to_ical(self): return self.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING).upper() @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): try: return cls(ical.upper()) except: raise ValueError('Expected weekday abbrevation, got: %s' % ical) class vFrequency(compat.unicode_type): """A simple class that catches illegal values. """ frequencies = CaselessDict({ "SECONDLY": "SECONDLY", "MINUTELY": "MINUTELY", "HOURLY": "HOURLY", "DAILY": "DAILY", "WEEKLY": "WEEKLY", "MONTHLY": "MONTHLY", "YEARLY": "YEARLY", }) def __new__(cls, value, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING): value = to_unicode(value, encoding=encoding) self = super(vFrequency, cls).__new__(cls, value) if not self in vFrequency.frequencies: raise ValueError('Expected frequency, got: %s' % self) self.params = Parameters() return self def to_ical(self): return self.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING).upper() @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): try: return cls(ical.upper()) except: raise ValueError('Expected frequency, got: %s' % ical) class vRecur(CaselessDict): """Recurrence definition. """ frequencies = ["SECONDLY", "MINUTELY", "HOURLY", "DAILY", "WEEKLY", "MONTHLY", "YEARLY"] # Mac iCal ignores RRULEs where FREQ is not the first rule part. # Sorts parts according to the order listed in RFC 5545, section 3.3.10. canonical_order = ("FREQ", "UNTIL", "COUNT", "INTERVAL", "BYSECOND", "BYMINUTE", "BYHOUR", "BYDAY", "BYMONTHDAY", "BYYEARDAY", "BYWEEKNO", "BYMONTH", "BYSETPOS", "WKST") types = CaselessDict({ 'COUNT': vInt, 'INTERVAL': vInt, 'BYSECOND': vInt, 'BYMINUTE': vInt, 'BYHOUR': vInt, 'BYMONTHDAY': vInt, 'BYYEARDAY': vInt, 'BYMONTH': vInt, 'UNTIL': vDDDTypes, 'BYSETPOS': vInt, 'WKST': vWeekday, 'BYDAY': vWeekday, 'FREQ': vFrequency, }) def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(vRecur, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.params = Parameters() def to_ical(self): result = [] for key, vals in self.sorted_items(): typ = self.types[key] if not isinstance(vals, SEQUENCE_TYPES): vals = [vals] vals = b','.join(typ(val).to_ical() for val in vals) # CaselessDict keys are always unicode key = key.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING) result.append(key + b'=' + vals) return b';'.join(result) @classmethod def parse_type(cls, key, values): # integers parser = cls.types.get(key, vText) return [parser.from_ical(v) for v in values.split(',')] @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): if isinstance(ical, cls): return ical try: recur = cls() for pairs in ical.split(';'): key, vals = pairs.split('=') recur[key] = cls.parse_type(key, vals) return dict(recur) except: raise ValueError('Error in recurrence rule: %s' % ical) class vText(compat.unicode_type): """Simple text. """ def __new__(cls, value, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING): value = to_unicode(value, encoding=encoding) self = super(vText, cls).__new__(cls, value) self.encoding = encoding self.params = Parameters() return self def __repr__(self): return "vText('%s')" % self.to_ical() def to_ical(self): return escape_char(self).encode(self.encoding) @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): ical_unesc = unescape_char(ical) return cls(ical_unesc) class vTime(object): """Render and generates iCalendar time format. """ def __init__(self, *args): if len(args) == 1: if not isinstance(args[0], (time, datetime)): raise ValueError('Expected a datetime.time, got: %s' % args[0]) self.dt = args[0] else: self.dt = time(*args) self.params = Parameters(dict(value='TIME')) def to_ical(self): return self.dt.strftime("%H%M%S") @staticmethod def from_ical(ical): # TODO: timezone support try: timetuple = (int(ical[:2]), int(ical[2:4]), int(ical[4:6])) return time(*timetuple) except: raise ValueError('Expected time, got: %s' % ical) class vUri(compat.unicode_type): """Uniform resource identifier is basically just an unquoted string. """ def __new__(cls, value, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING): value = to_unicode(value, encoding=encoding) self = super(vUri, cls).__new__(cls, value) self.params = Parameters() return self def to_ical(self): return self.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING) @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): try: return cls(ical) except: raise ValueError('Expected , got: %s' % ical) class vGeo(object): """A special type that is only indirectly defined in the rfc. """ def __init__(self, geo): try: latitude, longitude = (geo[0], geo[1]) latitude = float(latitude) longitude = float(longitude) except: raise ValueError('Input must be (float, float) for ' 'latitude and longitude') self.latitude = latitude self.longitude = longitude self.params = Parameters() def to_ical(self): return '%s;%s' % (self.latitude, self.longitude) @staticmethod def from_ical(ical): try: latitude, longitude = ical.split(';') return (float(latitude), float(longitude)) except: raise ValueError("Expected 'float;float' , got: %s" % ical) class vUTCOffset(object): """Renders itself as a utc offset. """ def __init__(self, td): if not isinstance(td, timedelta): raise ValueError('Offset value MUST be a timedelta instance') self.td = td self.params = Parameters() def to_ical(self): if self.td < timedelta(0): sign = '-%s' td = timedelta(0) - self.td # get timedelta relative to 0 else: # Google Calendar rejects '0000' but accepts '+0000' sign = '+%s' td = self.td days, seconds = td.days, td.seconds hours = abs(days * 24 + seconds // 3600) minutes = abs((seconds % 3600) // 60) seconds = abs(seconds % 60) if seconds: duration = '%02i%02i%02i' % (hours, minutes, seconds) else: duration = '%02i%02i' % (hours, minutes) return sign % duration @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): if isinstance(ical, cls): return ical.td try: sign, hours, minutes, seconds = (ical[0:1], int(ical[1:3]), int(ical[3:5]), int(ical[5:7] or 0)) offset = timedelta(hours=hours, minutes=minutes, seconds=seconds) except: raise ValueError('Expected utc offset, got: %s' % ical) if offset >= timedelta(hours=24): raise ValueError( 'Offset must be less than 24 hours, was %s' % ical) if sign == '-': return -offset return offset class vInline(compat.unicode_type): """This is an especially dumb class that just holds raw unparsed text and has parameters. Conversion of inline values are handled by the Component class, so no further processing is needed. """ def __new__(cls, value, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING): value = to_unicode(value, encoding=encoding) self = super(vInline, cls).__new__(cls, value) self.params = Parameters() return self def to_ical(self): return self.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING) @classmethod def from_ical(cls, ical): return cls(ical) class TypesFactory(CaselessDict): """All Value types defined in rfc 2445 are registered in this factory class. The value and parameter names don't overlap. So one factory is enough for both kinds. """ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): "Set keys to upper for initial dict" super(TypesFactory, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.all_types = ( vBinary, vBoolean, vCalAddress, vDDDLists, vDDDTypes, vDate, vDatetime, vDuration, vFloat, vFrequency, vGeo, vInline, vInt, vPeriod, vRecur, vText, vTime, vUTCOffset, vUri, vWeekday ) self['binary'] = vBinary self['boolean'] = vBoolean self['cal-address'] = vCalAddress self['date'] = vDDDTypes self['date-time'] = vDDDTypes self['duration'] = vDDDTypes self['float'] = vFloat self['integer'] = vInt self['period'] = vPeriod self['recur'] = vRecur self['text'] = vText self['time'] = vTime self['uri'] = vUri self['utc-offset'] = vUTCOffset self['geo'] = vGeo self['inline'] = vInline self['date-time-list'] = vDDDLists ################################################# # Property types # These are the default types types_map = CaselessDict({ #################################### # Property value types # Calendar Properties 'calscale': 'text', 'method': 'text', 'prodid': 'text', 'version': 'text', # Descriptive Component Properties 'attach': 'uri', 'categories': 'text', 'class': 'text', 'comment': 'text', 'description': 'text', 'geo': 'geo', 'location': 'text', 'percent-complete': 'integer', 'priority': 'integer', 'resources': 'text', 'status': 'text', 'summary': 'text', # Date and Time Component Properties 'completed': 'date-time', 'dtend': 'date-time', 'due': 'date-time', 'dtstart': 'date-time', 'duration': 'duration', 'freebusy': 'period', 'transp': 'text', # Time Zone Component Properties 'tzid': 'text', 'tzname': 'text', 'tzoffsetfrom': 'utc-offset', 'tzoffsetto': 'utc-offset', 'tzurl': 'uri', # Relationship Component Properties 'attendee': 'cal-address', 'contact': 'text', 'organizer': 'cal-address', 'recurrence-id': 'date-time', 'related-to': 'text', 'url': 'uri', 'uid': 'text', # Recurrence Component Properties 'exdate': 'date-time-list', 'exrule': 'recur', 'rdate': 'date-time-list', 'rrule': 'recur', # Alarm Component Properties 'action': 'text', 'repeat': 'integer', 'trigger': 'duration', # Change Management Component Properties 'created': 'date-time', 'dtstamp': 'date-time', 'last-modified': 'date-time', 'sequence': 'integer', # Miscellaneous Component Properties 'request-status': 'text', #################################### # parameter types (luckily there is no name overlap) 'altrep': 'uri', 'cn': 'text', 'cutype': 'text', 'delegated-from': 'cal-address', 'delegated-to': 'cal-address', 'dir': 'uri', 'encoding': 'text', 'fmttype': 'text', 'fbtype': 'text', 'language': 'text', 'member': 'cal-address', 'partstat': 'text', 'range': 'text', 'related': 'text', 'reltype': 'text', 'role': 'text', 'rsvp': 'boolean', 'sent-by': 'cal-address', 'tzid': 'text', 'value': 'text', }) def for_property(self, name): """Returns a the default type for a property or parameter """ return self[self.types_map.get(name, 'text')] def to_ical(self, name, value): """Encodes a named value from a primitive python type to an icalendar encoded string. """ type_class = self.for_property(name) return type_class(value).to_ical() def from_ical(self, name, value): """Decodes a named property or parameter value from an icalendar encoded string to a primitive python type. """ type_class = self.for_property(name) decoded = type_class.from_ical(value) return decoded