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Oracle Apex send an Calender Invite as an Appointment not ICS attachment

I would like to send a calendar invitation via Oracle Apex.
There are already many tutorials explaining how to send the calendar entry as an ICS attachment. In my case I would like to try that the recipient receives a direct invitation.
So far I have used the APEX_MAIL extension.
Here is a part of the Code i use: (That is the way i can send the Appointment as ICS Attatchment)
if l_body is not null then
l_mail_id := apex_mail.send(
--p_to => rec.creator_email,
p_to => t_an_liste,
p_cc => '',
p_bcc => '',
--p_bcc => '',
p_from => 'noreply#Sample.com',
p_body => l_body,
p_body_html => l_body,
p_subj => l_title);
if rec.SHOP_name is not null then
if rec.HYPERLINK Like '%teams.microsoft.com%' then
v_location := 'Microsoft Teams-Besprechung';
else
v_location := rec.HYPERLINK;
end if;
l_cal_1 := APEX_MAIL_CALENDAR('Terminbuchung ('||rec.SHOP_name||')',l_body,rec.TS_OPEN,rec.TS_CLOSE,v_location,15,'N');
apex_mail.add_attachment (p_mail_id => l_mail_id,
p_attachment => l_cal_1,
p_filename => 'Termineintrag.ics',
--Name of the ICS file
p_mime_type => 'application/hbs-ics'
);
end if;
APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE;
end if;
Does anyone know a solution for my problem?
Thank you!
Lukas :)

If you are using Microsoft 365, simplest way would probably be to use the Microsoft Graph API to Create an Event. You can pass all of the information about the "event" in the meeting invite in the body of your API request (see example below).
You will need to set up the proper access in Microsoft 365 so that you can authenticate before you can use the API. You will also need to designate an owner for the event using /me/ in the API call or using /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/ if you have the access set up properly.
{
"subject": "Let's go for lunch",
"body": {
"contentType": "HTML",
"content": "Does noon work for you?"
},
"start": {
"dateTime": "2017-04-15T12:00:00",
"timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
},
"end": {
"dateTime": "2017-04-15T14:00:00",
"timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
},
"location":{
"displayName":"Harry's Bar"
},
"attendees": [
{
"emailAddress": {
"address":"samanthab#contoso.onmicrosoft.com",
"name": "Samantha Booth"
},
"type": "required"
}
],
"allowNewTimeProposals": true,
"transactionId":"7E163156-7762-4BEB-A1C6-729EA81755A7"
}

How do I convert this CURL request to a normal HTTP request Javascript

I want to use this code snippet that I got from the IBM Natural Language API but run it in Javascript. How do I go about converting this to be a normal HTTP POST request? Just some pointers on rearranging the syntax would be amazing, I know there are a few placeholders here in the code that I'll change for what I need.
$ curl -X POST -u "apikey:{apikey}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"text": "I love apples! I do not like oranges.",
"features": {
"sentiment": {
"targets": [
"apples",
"oranges",
"broccoli"
]
},
"keywords": {
"emotion": true
}
}
}' \
"{url}/v1/analyze?version=2019-07-12"
Thanks!

You need to clarify what you mean by javascript. If it is node.js then you can use the ibm-watson sdk - https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/natural-language-understanding?code=node#analyze.
There is sample code at the link to show you how.
const NaturalLanguageUnderstandingV1 = require('ibm-watson/natural-language-understanding/v1');
const { IamAuthenticator } = require('ibm-watson/auth');
const naturalLanguageUnderstanding = new NaturalLanguageUnderstandingV1({
version: '2020-08-01',
authenticator: new IamAuthenticator({
apikey: '{apikey}',
}),
serviceUrl: '{url}',
});
const analyzeParams = {
'text': 'I love apples! I do not like oranges.',
'features': {
"sentiment": {
"targets": [
"apples",
"oranges",
"broccoli"
]
},
'keywords': {
'emotion': true
}
}
};
naturalLanguageUnderstanding.analyze(analyzeParams)
.then(analysisResults => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(analysisResults, null, 2));
})
.catch(err => {
console.log('error:', err);
});
If you are referring to javascript inside a browser, then what you use really depends on the javascript framework that you are using. This would be xhttp for raw javascript, but most frameworks simplify the process for you.
An alternative would be to use the ibm-watson sdk through browserify - https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk/tree/master/examples/browserify
or web pack - https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk/tree/master/examples/webpack

webauthn authentication javascript formatting assistance

I have been trying to figure out how to do 2fa with webauthn and I have the registration part working. The details are really poorly documented, especially all of the encoding payloads in javascript. I am able to register a device to a user, but I am not able to authenticate with that device. For reference, I'm using these resources:
https://github.com/cedarcode/webauthn-ruby
https://www.passwordless.dev/js/mfa.register.js
And specifically, for authentication, I'm trying to mimic this js functionality:
https://www.passwordless.dev/js/mfa.register.js
In my user model, I have a webauthn_id, and several u2f devices, each of which has a public_key and a webauthn_id.
In my Rails app, I do:
options = WebAuthn::Credential.options_for_get(allow: :webauthn_id)
session[:webauthn_options] = options
In my javascript, I try to mimic the js file above and I do (this is embedded ruby):
options = <%= raw #options.as_json.to_json %>
options.challenge = WebAuthnHelpers.coerceToArrayBuffer(options.challenge);
options.allowCredentials = options.allowCredentials.map((c) => {
c.id = WebAuthnHelpers.coerceToArrayBuffer(c.id);
return c;
});
navigator.credentials.get({ "publicKey": options }).then(function (credentialInfoAssertion)
{
// send assertion response back to the server
// to proceed with the control of the credential
alert('here');
}).catch(function (err)
{
debugger
console.error(err); /* THIS IS WHERE THE ERROR IS THROWN */
});
The problem is, I cannot get past navigator.credentials.get, I get this error in the javascript console:
TypeError: CredentialsContainer.get: Element of 'allowCredentials' member of PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions can't be converted to a dictionary
options at the time navigator.credentials.get is called looks like this:
I've tried every which way to convert my db-stored user and device variables into javascript properly encoded and parsed variables but cannot seem to get it to work. Anything obvious about what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for any help,
Kevin
UPDATE -
Adding options json generated by the server:
"{\"challenge\":\"SSDYi4I7kRWt5wc5KjuAvgJ3dsQhjy7IPOJ0hvR5tMg\",\"timeout\":120000,\"allowCredentials\":[{\"type\":\"public-key\",\"id\":\"OUckfxGNLGGASUfGiX-1_8FzehlXh3fKvJ98tm59mVukJkKb_CGk1avnorL4sQQASVO9aGqmgn01jf629Jt0Z0SmBpDKd9sL1T5Z9loDrkLTTCIzrIRqhwPC6yrkfBFi\"},{\"type\":\"public-key\",\"id\":\"Fj5T-WPmEMTz139mY-Vo0DTfsNmjwy_mUx6jn5rUEPx-LsY51mxNYidprJ39_cHeAOieg-W12X47iJm42K0Tsixj4_Fl6KjdgYoxQtEYsNF-LPhwtoKwYsy1hZgVojp3\"}]}"

This is an example of the serialised JSON data returned by our implementation:
{
"challenge": "MQ1S8MBSU0M2kiJqJD8wnQ",
"timeout": 60000,
"rpId": "identity.acme.com",
"allowCredentials": [
{
"type": "public-key",
"id": "k5Ti8dLdko1GANsBT-_NZ5L_-8j_8TnoNOYe8mUcs4o",
"transports": [
"internal"
]
},
{
"type": "public-key",
"id": "LAqkKEO99XPCQ7fsUa3stz7K76A_mE5dQwX4S3QS6jdbI9ttSn9Hu37BA31JUGXqgyhTtskL5obe6uZxitbIfA",
"transports": [
"usb"
]
},
{
"type": "public-key",
"id": "nbN3S08Wv2GElRsW9AmK70J1INEpwIywQcOl6rp_DWLm4mcQiH96TmAXSrZRHciZBENVB9rJdE94HPHbeVjtZg",
"transports": [
"usb"
]
}
],
"userVerification": "discouraged",
"extensions": {
"txAuthSimple": "Sign in to your ACME account",
"exts": true,
"uvi": true,
"loc": true,
"uvm": true
}
}
This is parsed to an object and the code used to coerce those base64url encoded values is:
credentialRequestOptions.challenge = WebAuthnHelpers.coerceToArrayBuffer(credentialRequestOptions.challenge);
credentialRequestOptions.allowCredentials = credentialRequestOptions.allowCredentials.map((c) => {
c.id = WebAuthnHelpers.coerceToArrayBuffer(c.id);
return c;
});
Hope that helps. The JSON data is retreived via a fetch() call and the byte[] fields are encoded as base64url on the serverside.

Sending email notifications for Events via Google Calendar API

I'm using the calendar.events.insert API to add an Event to my Calendar via the PHP client.
The event is being inserted correctly along with appropriate values as set by the API.
The same however is not able to trigger an email invite to the attendees. I looked around to find that the request needs to set the param sendNotifications as true.
The same doesn't seem to help either.
Here is a sample code:
var request = gapi.client.calendar.events.insert({
"calendarId" : calendarData.id,
"sendNotifications": true,
"end": {
"dateTime": eventData.endTime
},
"start": {
"dateTime": eventData.startTime
},
"summary": eventData.eventName,
"attendees": jQuery.map(eventData.attendees, function(a) {
return {'email' : a};
}),
"reminders": {
"useDefault": false,
"overrides": [
{
"method": "email",
"minutes": 15
},
{
"method": "popup",
"minutes": 15
}
]
}
});
Where eventData and calendarData are appropriate objects.
Although my main problem is with email invites being sent the first time, I also tried (as can be seen above) to set a reminder (using overrides). While the popup works as expected, I didn't receive an email update in this case either.
This makes me wonder whether this may be a permission issue - something which I need to enable for my app perhaps (the user would understandably need to know if my app is sending emails on their behalf)?

In the Google API Documentation for inserting events, the "sendNotifications" option is actually a parameter. You might want to put it in the request parameters instead of the body.
In Meteor
Note: In my Meteor application, I did did the request by hand, and I'm still new to JavaScript. I'm not sure how you would do that in plain JavaScript or with the calendar API, so I'll just put the Meteor code, hope it helps although it's a bit off-topic.
var reqUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/primary/events";
var payload = {
'headers' : {
'Authorization': "Bearer " + token,
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
'params': {
'sendNotifications': true
},
'data': {
"summary": summary,
"location": "",
"start": {
"dateTime": start
},
"end": {
"dateTime": end
},
"attendees": [
{
"email": "*********#gmail.com"
}
]
}
};
Meteor.http.post(reqUrl, reqParams, function () {});

#linaa is correct. Just ran into this issue myself.
In JS, this would look like:
var request = gapi.client.calendar.events.insert(
sendNotifications: true,
{
// request body goes here
}
);

For this you should set the "remindOnRespondedEventsOnly" value to "true".
which means, Whether event reminders should be sent only for events with the user’s response status “Yes” and “Maybe”.
You can find this information here.
Hope that helps!

event = service.events().insert(calendarId='primary', body=event, sendUpdates='all').execute()
this will work

IllegalAccessError after a few queries when using script filter in elasticsearch query

I have a 'users' elasticsearch index, where a user looks like:
{
"id" : 1,
"name" : "Jeroen",
"hours": [8,9,10,11,12,19,20,21,22,23],
"country": "NL",
"utc_offset": 1.0
}
I want to find all users of which the 'hours' field contains the current hour in their local time. So for example, I only want to find the above user when it's between 8.00-12.00 or 20.00-23.00 in the Netherlands.
My solution for this is using a script filter. I didn't know how to implement this with MVEL, so I installed the javascript plugin. Now my query looks like this:
{
"query": {
"match_all": {}
},"filter": {
"script": {
"script": "var a = doc['hours'].values; var d = new Date(); d.setTime(d.getTime() + doc['utc_offset'].value * 3600 * 1000); a.indexOf('' + d.getHours()) != -1",
"params": {}
}
}
}
So this works, but after a while elasticsearch is starting to throw exceptions, like this:
{
"error": "SearchPhaseExecutionException[Failed to execute phase [query], all shards failed; shardFailures {[x9FlNmmsT26hJbrfnyH2uA][users][2]: QueryPhaseExecutionException[[users][2]: query[ConstantScore(*:*)],from[0],size[10]: Query Failed [Failed to execute main query]]; nested: IllegalAccessError[org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/ScriptDocValues$Strings$1]; }{[x9FlNmmsT26hJbrfnyH2uA][users][3]: QueryPhaseExecutionException[[users][3]: query[ConstantScore(*:*)],from[0],size[10]: Query Failed [Failed to execute main query]]; nested: IllegalAccessError[org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/ScriptDocValues$Strings$1]; }{[x9FlNmmsT26hJbrfnyH2uA][users][0]: QueryPhaseExecutionException[[users][0]: query[ConstantScore(*:*)],from[0],size[10]: Query Failed [Failed to execute main query]]; nested: IllegalAccessError[org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/ScriptDocValues$Strings$1]; }{[x9FlNmmsT26hJbrfnyH2uA][users][2]: QueryPhaseExecutionException[[users][3]: query[ConstantScore(*:*)],from[0],size[10]: Query Failed [Failed to execute main query]]; nested: IllegalAccessError[org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/ScriptDocValues$Strings$1]; }{[x9FlNmmsT26hJbrfnyH2uA][users][4]: QueryPhaseExecutionException[[users][4]: query[ConstantScore(*:*)],from[0],size[10]: Query Failed [Failed to execute main query]]; nested: IllegalAccessError[org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/ScriptDocValues$Strings$1]; }]",
"status": 500
}
A similar issue was posted where it was suggested it's a problem with the JIT compiler. As a workaround it was suggested to disable it by using '-Dmvel2.disable.jit=true'. I've tried this, by putting it in ES_JAVA_OPTS in /etc/default/elasticsearch but it didn't seem to have any effect.
Does anybody have a clue what's going wrong and how to fix it, or have an alternative way of performing this query?