List of calendars not getting updated (requires --refresh to update the list)

[jason-mehmel]

I've recently been given access to a new calendar as a reader in my Google Calendar account, but I'm not seeing it reflected in my Agenda.

I'm not sure how to update the calendars that gcalcli has access to. Do I need to recreate the API or anything to absorb the new calendar's access?

[ComedyTomedy]

Had the same problem just now. And I did recreate the API, which was silly. But the fix is actually very simple:

rm ~/.gcalcli_cache

[jason-mehmel]

What happened after you ran that command?

After that removes the cache, does it basically just reset itself after when gcalcli runs again? Or did you have to reauthorize everything?

[ComedyTomedy]

No reauth, just runs as normal but fetching a fresh list of calendars etc. :)

[jason-mehmel]

That worked great! Thank you!

[dbarnett]

This still needs a proper fix, but FWIW you can now run gcalcli util reset-cache to conveniently delete the cache files (at HEAD now or in upcoming 4.5 release).

[dbarnett]

For reference, I also discovered this is the reason sometimes calw/calm/etc seem to require different auth than list, because it can still show the calendar list from cache after auth is broken but other commands will get stuck needing authentication.

Along with better cache invalidation here, it might be worth showing warnings when gcalcli list is successfully showing a cached copy but detects it's lacking auth to refresh or do any especially useful operations.