ICalCodec (Silverpeas Core 6.4 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ICal4JICalCodec
```
public interface ICalCodec
```
An iCal calendar encoder/decoder. It encodes the events of a calendar into the iCal format and decodes a calendar in iCal format into Silverpeas event calendar.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`encode(List<CalendarEvent> events)`	Encodes the specified events in a calendar into the iCal format.

- Method Detail
  - encode
```
String encode(List<CalendarEvent> events)
       throws EncodingException
```
    Encodes the specified events in a calendar into the iCal format. If the encoding process failed for an unexpected reason, then an EncodingException is thrown.
    
    Parameters:
    
    events - the calendar events to encode in the iCal format. If the list of events is null or empty, an IllegalArgumentException is thrown.
    
    Returns:
    
    the textual representation in iCal format of the events..
    
    Throws:
    
    EncodingException - a runtime exception that is thrown when an unexpected failure occurs while encoding the specified calendar events.