Can't run hook_feeds_after_parse()

You're right, $item is an object, however I'm unable to find the element on that object to set its value...

if($result->title == 'generic-title'){
    foreach($result->items as $item_key => &$item) {
      # insert logic to find and set value of field_location
      }
    }
  }

Also, I'm unfamiliar with how to "JIT Debug" it, but usually I try to kprint_r() or drupal_set_message() the output of a particular object or array. The weird thing that is happening is that when I force an import by clicking the Import button at /import/name_of_importer it will hit a 30 second timeout (the ICS has a couple thousand events) and before it gives you the 30 second timeout error message it will indeed print out the object ($result or $item) when I use kprint_r().

However, when I try to drill down to result->items[0] (the DateIcalIcalcreatorComponent) it just displays that number of the array and it doesn't respond to clicks. So, I can't tell what to target in my foreach(). I'm guessing the array is just incomplete because the timeout prevented from rendering all the way. If I try to kpr() $item, it will similarly just show the DateIcalIcalcreatorComponent object that isn't clickable.

It doesn't time out when the cron runs, but I'm not sure there's a way to print the object during a cron.

I also tried to have the $result object printed to a file on my server, but that didn't work either. And the problem here isn't permissions because the txt file I'm appending to is 777 on the server.

Finally, if I try to kpr or dsm the output of a different feed, an ICS that only has one event, on Import click, it just seems to ignore the kpr or dsm requests and imports the ics successfully and quietly.

Kinda befuddled here. Also, alternatively, is there a better/known way to set the value of a field to a string on import?

Thanks for any help.

So, for your first suggestion, dd() worked great, that's a really handy function, thank you. The bad news now though is that it looks like the DateIcalIcalcreatorComponent object contains an object called compenent:protected. When I try to access the contents, i.e.

function event_importers_feeds_after_parse(FeedsSource $source, FeedsParserResult $result) {
dd($result->items[0]->component);  // tried dd($result->items[0]->component->location['value']); too
}

I get this error:

Fatal error: Cannot access protected property DateIcalIcalcreatorComponent::$component in /var/www/webdev/drupal/sites/all/modules/event_importers/event_importers.feeds_importer_default.inc on line 167 Call Stack: 0.0190 649152 1. {main}() /var/www/webdev/drupal/index.php:0 15.0168 52328544 2. menu_execute_active_handler() /var/www/webdev/drupal/index.php:21 15.0798 52498040 3. call_user_func_array() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/menu.inc:517 15.0799 52498464 4. drupal_get_form() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/menu.inc:517 15.0799 52499488 5. drupal_build_form() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/form.inc:131 15.3454 52980456 6. drupal_process_form() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/form.inc:374 15.3520 53030368 7. form_execute_handlers() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/form.inc:860 15.3521 53033928 8. feeds_import_form_submit() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/form.inc:1464 15.3586 53034032 9. FeedsSource->startImport() /var/www/webdev/drupal/sites/all/modules/feeds/feeds.pages.inc:109 15.6744 53755792 10. FeedsSource->startBackgroundJob() /var/www/webdev/drupal/sites/all/modules/feeds/includes/FeedsSource.inc:243 15.6744 53755792 11. FeedsSource->import() /var/www/webdev/drupal/sites/all/modules/feeds/includes/FeedsSource.inc:677 19.6516 62961496 12. module_invoke_all() /var/www/webdev/drupal/sites/all/modules/feeds/includes/FeedsSource.inc:355 19.6732 62981848 13. call_user_func_array() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/module.inc:857 19.6732 62982272 14. event_importers_feeds_after_parse() /var/www/webdev/drupal/includes/module.inc:857

So, I guess I can't change the values of this object?

In terms of the Xdebug stuff, I'm going to work at this again some time, but I wasn't able to get it to work. I suspect this is due to the fact that I'm using MAMP locally which has its own implementation of xdebug...

Yup, that did the trick! I'm now able to override the location field on events being parsed in. Thanks a ton for your extremely fast support on this!

function event_importers_feeds_after_parse(FeedsSource $source, FeedsParserResult $result) {
  if($result->title == 'generic-title'){
    foreach ($result->items as $value) {
      $value->component->location['value'] = "Overriden String";
    }
  }
}