Editing Google Calendar Event Meets URI With External Link via API - ruby-on-rails

Question

I've had code that has been working for the last year or so, that adds a new Google Meets Entry Point with my own custom URI to the Google Calendar Event via the Google Calendar API.
For example if I click on "Join with Google Meet" below it does not go to a meets.google.com link like usual, because I replaced it with my own custom link.
Unfortunately for some reason in the past couple weeks this stopped working. Now when my code tries to edit the URI for the meet, it returns this error: Google::Apis::ClientError (invalid: Invalid Value). I haven't changed the code in months and this only started happening recently.
Here is what the code looks like:
def update_event_meet_url(service, event, send_updates = "all")
entry_points = [
Google::Apis::CalendarV3::EntryPoint.new(
entry_point_type: "video",
label: meeting_url,
uri: meeting_url,
),
]
if original_phone_info.present?
entry_points << Google::Apis::CalendarV3::EntryPoint.new(
entry_point_type: original_phone_info["entry_point_type"],
label: original_phone_info["label"],
uri: original_phone_info["uri"],
pin: original_phone_info["pin"],
region_code: original_phone_info["region_code"],
)
end
event_changes = {
conference_data: Google::Apis::CalendarV3::ConferenceData.new(entry_points: entry_points),
}
updated_event = Google::Apis::CalendarV3::Event.new(event_changes)
service.patch_event(
gcalendar_id,
event.id,
updated_event,
conference_data_version: 1,
send_updates: send_updates,
)
end
I know the problem is with the video entry point because I replaced the meeting_url with a working https://meets.google.com link and it worked. But if I try anything else that is not meets.google.com it errors.
I'm using this Ruby gem https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-ruby-client.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Answer 1

Contacted google support and looks like there was a recent release that changed the behavior of conferenceData.conferenceSolution.key.type. More info here: https://developers.google.com/calendar/releases#january_11_2021)we
Basically I needed to change my conference solution key type to addOn instead of hangoutsMeet. The subsequent problem I had was that I still needed a hangoutsMeet link, since the third party url I'm using would eventually redirect to the meets.google.com link. And the only way to get a hangoutsMeet link is to create the initial event with conferenceData.conferenceSolution.key.type = hangoutsMeet.
So what I did was create the google event with conferenceData.conferenceSolution.key.type = 'hangoutsMeet' and then I did a subsequent patch_event call that set the initial hangoutsMeet conference solution to null and created a new conferenceSolution of type addOn. That way I could store the original meets.google.com link and then use that link for the redirect from my third party link.
def update_event_meet_url(service, event, send_updates = "all")
entry_points = [
Google::Apis::CalendarV3::EntryPoint.new(
entry_point_type: "video",
label: meeting_url,
uri: meeting_url,
),
]
conference_solution_key = Google::Apis::CalendarV3::ConferenceSolutionKey.new(type: "addOn")
conference_solution =
Google::Apis::CalendarV3::ConferenceSolution.new(key: conference_solution_key)
event_changes = {
conference_data: Google::Apis::CalendarV3::ConferenceData.new(
conference_solution: conference_solution,
entry_points: entry_points,
create_request: nil,
),
}
updated_event = Google::Apis::CalendarV3::Event.new(event_changes)
service.patch_event(
gcalendar_id,
event.id,
updated_event,
conference_data_version: 1,
send_updates: send_updates,
)
end