Event attendees don't get email notification

[ajkessel]

I am creating test events with --who 'user@gmail.com'. The user does see an invite from within the calendar app, but strangely enough never gets an email notification that they've been invited to an event. Is this the intended/expected behavior? Whenever a calendar item is created in Google Calendar web interface with an attendee, that person is notified by email. Is there any way to trigger the notification from the CLI?

[ajkessel]

Figured it out. Patch below that causes email invites to be sent; perhaps this should be added as a command-line switch?

--- gcal.py.bak 2021-07-01 12:50:04.814334100 -0400
+++ gcal.py     2021-07-01 12:59:23.631646400 -0400
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@

         event = self._add_reminders(event, reminders)
         events = self.get_cal_service().events()
-        request = events.insert(calendarId=self.cals[0]['id'], body=event)
+        request = events.insert(calendarId=self.cals[0]['id'], body=event,sendUpdates="all")
         new_event = self._retry_with_backoff(request)

         if self.details.get('url'):
@@ -1606,7 +1606,8 @@
                                         .events()
                                         .insert(
                                             calendarId=self.cals[0]['id'],
-                                            body=event
+                                            body=event,
+                                            sendUpdates="all"
                                         )
                                 )
                     hlink = new_event.get('htmlLink')
@@ -1625,7 +1626,8 @@
                                         .events()
                                         .insert(
                                             calendarId=self.cals[0]['id'],
-                                            body=event
+                                            body=event,
+                                            sendUpdates="all"
                                         )
                                 )
                     hlink = new_event.get('htmlLink')