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Google calendar recurring event deletion with single events doesn't return all events

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reproducing the list_events call with single_events, show_deleted, and a sync token, comparing results after deleting recurring Google Calendar events. Determine the intended scope of cancelled events returned after synchronization; done means the behavior is clarified and, if this client is responsible, covered by a regression test.

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Description

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When the list_events method is invoked with the single_events parameter set to true and a recurring event in Google calendar is deleted, only six months worth of events with the status 'cancelled' is returned leaving additional events that should be deleted in my database.

When adding the option show_deleted combined with single_events set to true and with a sync token set, all events ever deleted are returned which is a huge list if anyone has gone through the process of creating and deleting a few recurring events. Shouldn't only the events deleted since the last sync token be returned?

Is this the intended behavior?

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